Tobias Wolff

Tobias Wolff
Wolff u knjižari Kepler's u Menlo Parku, Kalifornija, 25. april 2008
Biografske informacije
Rođenje	Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff 19. 6. 1945. (1945-06-19) Birmingham, Alabama, SAD
Supružnik	Catherine Dolores Spohn (vj. 1975; 3 djece)
Rodbina	Geoffrey Wolff (brat)
Obrazovanje
Zanimanje	književnik
Opus
Književne vrste	memoari, novela, roman
Znamenita djela
This Boy's Life i In Pharaoh's Army
Inspiracija
Od Anton Čehov, Ernest Hemingway, Guy de Maupassant, Raymond Carver
Na Larry Brown,　Tom Perrotta, David Sedaris, James Franco, Tucker Max, Stephen Elliott, Laura Moriarty

Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (19. jun 1945) je američki književnik, najpoznatiji po memoarskim knjigama - This Boy's Life u kojoj je opisao svoje odrastanje u porodici nasilnog očuha te In Pharaoh's Army u kojoj je opisao svoju vojnu službu u Vijetanmskom ratu. Wolff je od 1980. do 1987. predavao književnost na Univerzitetu Syracuse gdje mu se među studentima našao i Tom Perrotta.

Po knjizi This Boy's Life snimljen je istoimeni film gdje je njegov lik tumačio Leonardo DiCaprio.

Bibliografija

romani

• Ugly Rumours (1975)
• The Barracks Thief (1984) (novella) ISBN 0-88001-049-5
• Old School (2003) ISBN 0-375-40146-6

zbirke priča

• In the Garden of the North American Martyrs (1981) ISBN 0-88001-497-0
• Hunters in the Snow (1981)
• Back in the World (1985)
• The Collected Short Stories ISBN 0-7475-3153-6
• The Night in Question (1997) ISBN 0-679-78155-2
• Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories (2008) ISBN 978-1-4000-4459-7
• That Room (2008)

antologije

• Matters of Life and Death: New American Stories (1983) ISBN 0-931694-17-5
• Best American Short Stories (1994)
• The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1994) ISBN 0-679-74513-0

Publisticika

• This Boy's Life (1989) ISBN 0-8021-3668-0
• In Pharaoh's Army (1994), ISBN 0-679-76023-7

Novele

• „Bible”. The Atlantic Fiction Issue. 2007. 

Vanjske veze

• Profile at The Whiting Foundation
• Übermensch Arhivirano 2015-02-14 na Wayback Machine-u, an excerpt from the novel Old School in Narrative Magazine (Fall 2003)
• Jack Livings (Fall 2004). „Tobias Wolff, The Art of Fiction No. 183”. The Paris Review. 
• Stifled Truth, an appreciation of Wolff's publications to date, by Wyatt Mason in the London Review of Books
• Tobias Wolff reads his short story, "Say Yes" recorded at the Progressive Reading Series, San Francisco 2008
• 'Old School', an interview with Tobias Wolff in the Oxonian Review
• Jane Curtin reading Tobias Wolff's story "In the Garden of the North American Martyrs" na YouTube