Tobias Wolff

About Tobias Wolff

He is best known for his popular book, This Boy's Life, and is a contemporary American novelist. He received the PEN/Malamud Award in 2006.

Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff is an American short story writer, memoirist, novelist, and teacher of creative writing. He is known for his memoirs, particularly This Boy's Life and In Pharaoh's Army. He has written four short story collections and two novels including The Barracks Thief, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Wolff received a National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in September 2015. His academic career began at Syracuse University 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.

Genre	memoir, short story, novel
Alma mater	Hertford College, Oxford, Stanford University
Spouse	Catherine Dolores Spohn (m. 1975, 3 children)
Occupation	Writer
Born	Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff, June 19, 1945, Birmingham, Alabama, United States

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Trivia

His 1984 novella, The Barracks Thief, won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Tobias Wolff before fame

From 1980 to 1997, he was a professor at Syracuse University.

Achievement of Tobias Wolff

The Barracks Thief, a novella he wrote in 1984, won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Tobias Wolff family life

In 1975, he married Catherine Dolores Spohn, with whom he has three children.

Associations of Tobias Wolff

This Boy's Life, his autobiography, was adapted into a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

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