For the German footballer, see Tobias Wolf. For the legal academic, see Tobias Barrington Wolff.
Tobias Wolff
Wolff in 2008
Born
Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (1945-06-19) June 19, 1945 (age 78) Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
Occupation
Writer
Alma mater
Hertford College, Oxford (BA) Stanford University (MA)
Genre
Memoir, short story, novel
Spouse
Catherine Dolores Spohn (m. 1975; 3 children)
Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (born June 19, 1945) is an American short story writer, memoirist, novelist, and teacher of creative writing. He is known for his memoirs, particularly This Boy's Life (1989) and In Pharaoh's Army (1994). He has written four short story collections and two novels including The Barracks Thief (1984), which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Wolff received a National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in September 2015.[1]
His academic career began at Syracuse University (1982–1997) and, since 1997, he has taught at Stanford University, where he is the Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences.
^"Obama awards Stanford's Tobias Wolff a National Medal of Arts | The Dish". news.stanford.edu. Retrieved December 17, 2015.
Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (born June 19, 1945) is an American short story writer, memoirist, novelist, and teacher of creative writing. He is known...
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writer TobiasWolff, first published in 1984. The story concerns paratroopers in training during the time of the Vietnam war. Readers of Wolff's memoir...
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2011 for a five-year term. Schirmer stood down from both posts in 2022. TobiasWolff became Intendant of the company in 2022. Christoph Gedschold became music...
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