Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff was born on June 19,1945 and is an American short story writer, memoirist, novelist, and teacher of creative writing.
17 Facts About Tobias Wolff
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Tobias Wolff is known for his memoirs, particularly This Boy's Life and In Pharaoh's Army.
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Tobias Wolff was born in 1945 in Birmingham, Alabama, the second son of Rosemary from Hartford, Connecticut, and Arthur Samuels Tobias Wolff, an aeronautical engineer who was a son of a Jewish doctor and his wife.
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The father had become Episcopalian, and Tobias Wolff did not learn about his father's Jewish roots until he was an adult.
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Tobias Wolff's parents separated when Wolff was five and his elder brother Geoffrey was twelve; he lived with his mother in a variety of places, including Seattle, Washington, when he was an adolescent.
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Tobias Wolff had applied under the self-embellished name "Tobias Jonathan von Ansell-Wolff III", adopting part of one of his father's personas, Saunders Ansell-Wolff 3d.
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When Tobias Wolff was found to have forged his transcripts and recommendation letters, he was later expelled.
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Tobias Wolff served in the US Army from 1964 to 1968, when he trained for Special Forces, learned Vietnamese, and served as an adviser in Vietnam.
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Tobias Wolff holds a First Class Honours degree in English from Hertford College, Oxford.
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Tobias Wolff published his first short story collection in 1981.
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In 1997, Wolff transferred to Stanford, where he is the Ward W and Priscilla B Woods Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences.
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Tobias Wolff has taught classes in English and creative writing, and served as the director of the Creative Writing Program at Stanford from 2000 to 2002.
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Tobias Wolff is widely known for his work in two genres: the short story and the memoir.
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Tobias Wolff published a third collection of stories, The Night in Question, in 1997.
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In 1989, Tobias Wolff was chosen as recipient of the Rea Award for the Short Story.
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In 2001, Tobias Wolff's acclaimed short story "Bullet in the Brain" was adapted as a short film by David Von Ancken and CJ Follini; it starred Tom Noonan and Dean Winters.
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Tobias Wolff is married and lives with his wife, Catherine Dolores Spohn, and three children in California.