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		Tobias Wolff was born in Alabama in 1945 and grew up in the Skagit River Valley of Washington State.
		Tobias Wolff was born in Alabama on 19th June 1945 and had a somewhat unsettled upbringing.
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	Tobias Wolff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (born June 19, 1945 in Birmingham, Alabama) is a writer of fiction and nonfiction.
		Wolff is the Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, where he has taught classes in English and creative writing since 1997.
		Tobias Wolff's older brother is the author and University of California, Irvine professor Geoffrey Wolff.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tobias_Wolff (511 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| Writer's life: Tobias Wolff
		Wolff is the author of the ground-breaking memoir This Boy's Life, which a lot of people will tell you is their favourite book ever – if they are literary types they might say it reinvented the form.
		It is an account of Wolff's troubled teens and begins with him and his divorced mother driving west out of Florida, on the run from her violent boyfriend, with a cock-eyed plan to strike it rich in the Utah uranium fields.
		Wolff is fascinated by the contrast between fantasy and reality, perhaps because of his own grand deception and perhaps thanks to his father, a conman who served time in jail for forging cheques.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/02/15/bowolff.xml (1181 words)

	National Initiatives: Operation Homecoming - Tobias Wolff
		Born in 1945 in Birmingham, Alabama, Tobias Wolff is the author of two memoirs.
		Wolff has also written three volumes of short stories, including The Night in Question (1996) and Barracks Thief (1984), which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction and features a story about paratroopers waiting to be sent to Vietnam.
		Wolff is the recipient of two Literature Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Whiting Writers Award.
	arts.endow.gov /national/homecoming/authorbios/wolff.html (217 words)

	The Hill / Sixth Form Leadership Award presented to Tobias Wolff '64
		Wolff, Headmaster Dougherty claimed, “Toby Wolff — through determination, good humor, and empathy — through the rebukes of a painful childhood and the anguish of war in Vietnam — has lived, observed, felt, and recorded life in prose that is refined, clean, even pure.
		Wolff first stated, “As I left the grounds of this School, I probably wasn’t thinking I would be standing here 40 years later.” In response to Headmaster Dougherty’s remarks, he replied, “I just couldn’t seem to study algebra too much.” Aside from his aversion to math, Mr.
		Wolff looked closely at the biographies of the authors he was imitating and discovered “they allowed the truths to infuse their workallowed those things to inspirit the work they were writing to give it a moral and human quality.” He then began incorporating this notion of self-expression and into his own writing.
	www.thehill.org /home/news_item.asp?id=53 (846 words)

	Review of Tobias Wolff's book 'In Pharaoh's Army' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Wolff’s memoir is the tale of a youth enroute to maturity along a troubled path, interrupted by Vietnam.
		After OCS Wolff attends the Defense Language Institute in Washington for a year to learn Vietnamese and he is sitting on his mother’s couch when he reads of his friend’s death in Vietnam.
		The personnel officer expects Wolff’s assignment as an advisor to a Vietnamese artillery battalion near My Tho in the Delta to be a disappointment to the young SF officer, but Wolff is grateful for being assigned away from Special Forces.
	www.gruntonline.com /BookReviews/bookreview13.htm (708 words)

	MPR: Tobias Wolff's first novel "dips deep" into his own memories
		Wolff, who told of his own transforming years at boarding school in his memoir "This Boy's Life," said while this work is certainly fiction, he "dipped deep" in his memories for a lot of it.
		Wolff's fictional school is isolated and exclusive, and he wrote that it "crackled with sexual static." It's a place where the boys revere literature and idolize famous authors.
		Wolff portrays her as a waspish, impatient woman who disdains the "ask what you can do for your country" values of the day.
	news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/2005/01/14_newsroom_oldschool (1252 words)

	'Old School' by Tobias Wolff
		In "Old School," Wolff turns for the first time to the novel form, and the result is a beautifully written, if somewhat tendentious, meditation on developing an identity.
		Using a youthful and unnamed narrator in a school setting underscores the central idea of the novel because, as Wolff shows, identity is not a simple state of being but a continual process of becoming.
		In a tone as gentle and considerate as the Rand section is merciless, Wolff arrives at his main point: It is not our bluster that justifies our space on the planet; it is our soft underside.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20040111wolff0111fnp5.asp (659 words)

	DAILY BRUIN ONLINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In a scene from Tobias Wolff's latest novel, "Old School,"; a group of teenage boys are huddled around a fire in the lodge of their elite New England prep school while feisty writer Ayn Rand vehemently argues with the main character, a student consumed by literature, on the artistic merit of Ernest Hemingway.
		Wolff, whose own adolescence mirrors that of the unnamed main character/narrator, now takes his turn speaking to aspiring writers in an appearance at Freud Playhouse tonight at 8 p.m.
		Wolff is known as the "master of the memoir," and "Old School"; is being billed as his first novel.
	www.dailybruin.ucla.edu /news/printable.asp?id=26627&date=12/4/2003 (626 words)

	Old School by Tobias Wolff - read book review
		Wolff's novel is most remarkable for its point of view and for its conciseness.
		Though New England prep school life may not resonate with most readers, Wolff is able to use this confined setting to examine in detail the literary life and what it means, presenting a novel with messages of wider, more global significance as the speaker moves from the school to the crueler outside world.
		Though Wolff says that "No true account can be given of how or why you become a writer," he comes as close here to illustrating that process as in any other novel I've ever read about the writing life.
	mostlyfiction.com /contemp/wolff.htm (1121 words)

	Tobias Wolff gives public reading Sept. 21 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Wolff, author of such brilliant short story collections as The Night in Question, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs and The Barracks Thief, is the latest guest of the 2001 James McConkey Reader in American Fiction series at Cornell.
		Wolff, the Melvin and Bill Lane Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University, also is the author of two highly acclaimed memoirs, This Boy's Life and In Pharaoh's Army.
		Wolff was born in Birmingham, Ala., in 1945.
	www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/01/9.20.01/Wolff.html (349 words)

	City Arts & Lectures
		Tobias Wolff's succinct and astute prose is often laced with a mordant humor and an honesty that is somewhat surprising if you consider his early days of passing bad checks, writing papers for classmates, and conjuring up false recommendations for prep school applications.
		Wolff certainly does not shy away from his past in his candid memoirs, This Boy's Life and In Pharaoh's Army, which respectively chronicle a painful childhood and a reluctant stint in the Vietnam War.
		Although he is perhaps most recognized for his personal accounts, Wolff's literary form of choice is the short story and he is considered one of the contemporary masters of the genre.
	www.cityarts.net /n.wolff.html (238 words)

	Tobias Wolff to Speak at Trinity in April (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Wolff’s presentation originally was scheduled for March 4; however, he postponed his appearance to attend the National Book Critics Circle Awards ceremony where his book, Old School, is a finalist in the annual prestigious honors.
		Wolff is the winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (for The Barracks Thief) and is a finalist for this year’s National Book Critics Circle Award for his most recent work, Old School.
		Wolff is revered as much as a teacher as he is as a writer.
	www.trinity.edu /departments/public_relations/news_releases/Tobias_Wolff.htm (320 words)

	Alibris: Tobias Wolff
		Tobias Wolff's dark and eccentric memoir about growing up rebellious in the 1950s is a funny, heartbreaking portrait of a vulnerable boy trying desperately to keep things together as he and his skittish mother travel aimlessly around the US, avoiding the violent lover she left behind.
		Tobias Wolff's acclaimed novella, "The Barracks Thief," examines friendship, betrayal--and the American military experience--in light of one particular incident, from the points of view of three paratroopers waiting to be sent to Vietnam.
		In these 12 short stories, Tobias Wolff places characters in situations that force them to face important questions--how to be loved, how to be true, how to be brave--and their responses are both humorous and appalling.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Tobias_Wolff (1127 words)

	Old School (Vintage Contemporaries) (Tobias Wolff) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Tobias Wolff used a lot of detail, and I mean a lot.
		Tobias Wolff is an excellent writer whose descriptions are both appropriate and fully detailed.
		Wolff attended a traditional East Coast boarding school and violated the school's honor code.
	www.interference.com /webstore/us/product/0375701494.htm (591 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Off the Page: Tobias Wolff
		Tobias Wolff may be best known for This Boy's Life, a memoir (and later a movie) about growing up at the hands of an alcoholic stepfather.
		Tobias Wolff: To begin with, it is a first-person narrative, and there's no question at all that in his voice and in some of his circumstances, the narrator of Old School resembles the narrator of This Boy's Life and In Pharoah's Army.
		Tobias Wolff: Yes, the world of this novel is passed.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A14402-2003Nov25?language=printer (1451 words)

	Amazon.com: The Night In Question : Stories (Vintage Contemporaries): Books: Tobias Wolff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Wolff is a master at building tension, as in his description of the machinery threatening the little boy in the title story, or of a father's observing a dog attack his son in "Chain." His naturalistic, powerfully written stories explore the human response to the random and unexpected blows of fate.
		Wolff's first book of short fiction in over a decade (after his two acclaimed memoirs, This Boy's Life and In Pharaoh's Army) finds him writing at the top of the form.
		Wolff's characterizations are impeccable, his ear pitch-perfect and his eye unblinking yet compassionate.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679781552?v=glance (2118 words)

	Bookreporter.com - OLD SCHOOL by Tobias Wolff
		Wolff lovingly details the passion these "book drunk boys" have for great writing --- be it poems, short stories, or novels.
		Wolff is an extraordinary writer in that he's able to change his style and write like a young boy.
		Wolff gets rid of the padding and tells you all you need to know about each of the characters and their struggles.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews2/0375701494.asp (526 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Wolff's memoir of his disillusioning experience as a soldier in Vietnam was a finalist for the NBA.
		Wolff is a fine writer, and the book is certainly readable, but it added barely anything to my understanding of war, Vietnam, the soldier's life, etc. Frankly, I was disappointed, based on the previous work I'd read by him.
		Wolff is a gifted writer, but it doesn't seem like he's got a whole lot to talk about when it comes to his time in Vietnam.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0679760237 (746 words)

	A&L Fall Lectures News Release - Tobias Wolff
		Tobias Wolff, fiction writer, memoirist and author of the award-winning autobiographical novel This Boy’s Life will read from and discuss his work in An Afternoon with the Author on Thursday, November 4 at 4 p.m.
		Wolff is most widely appreciated for his two memoirs: This Boy’s Life: A Memoir and In Pharaoh’s Army: Memories of the Lost War.
		In This Boy’s Life, Wolff illuminates the emotions of boyhood and adolescence in an account of his life after his mother and father separated and his older brother Geoffrey, also an accomplished author, went away to live with their father.
	www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu /archive/1999-2000/pr/wolff.htm (481 words)

	Printed Matter -- Tobias Wolff -- Page
		The Wolff brothers were separated at a young age when their parents divorced.
		Wolff joined the Army when he was 18 and served for four years, from 1964 to 1968.
		The U.S. Army gave Wolff a year of language training at the end of which time he was told he spoke Vietnamese about as well as a 6-year-old with a freakish military vocabulary.
	www.dcn.davis.ca.us /~gizmo/tobias.html (909 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff
		Short-story writer Tobias Wolff amazed readers with his 1989 memoir, as notable for its finely wrought prose as for the events depicted.
		When his mother remarries, Wolff finds himself in a battle of wills with a hostile stepfather, a contest in which the two prove to be exceedingly stubborn.
		Wolff's masterful job of reexamining the frustrations and cruelties of adolescence evokes all-embracing emotions.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/this_boys_life1.asp (1465 words)

	Salt Lake City Weekly - Head of the Class
		Wolff’s narrator obsessively assesses his station within the small, yet formidable circle of fellow aspirants that constitue the school’s literary journal.
		Wolff gracefully captures a time and place when even the most graying of writers were as revered and debated as any rock star, their verse quoted with the breezy familiarity any mall-rat might regurgitate a Slim Shady stanza.
		Wolff’s voice is infused with a complex, disturbed recollection from one who knows his superiors better than they know themselves.
	www.slweekly.com /editorial/2003/arts_2003-12-11.cfm (642 words)

	Free-Essays.us - Analisis Of Tobias Wolff
		Tobias Wolff is a strange writer whose work is “so absolutely clear and hypnotic that a reader wants to take it apart and find some simple way to describe why it works so beautifully”(Tobias Wolff, This Boy’s Life [back cover]).
		Wolff uses a wide range of qualities, but their goal is all the same: to make a character more realistic in the mind of the reader.
		Their effects on Wolff’s pieces are ones of cleanliness; they make his sentences and paragraphs flow more smoothly and they deliver the information in a direct and concise fashion, which makes for easy reading.
	www.free-essays.us /dbase/b6/rrg45.shtml (1432 words)

	Tobias Wolff Biography
		Tobias Wolff was born in 1945 in Alabama.
		Wolff’s mother retained custody of him, while his brother Geoffrey— who also became a writer—lived with their father.
		Wolff briefly attended preparatory school on the East Coast, but he was expelled.
	www.enotes.com /say-yes/23065 (132 words)

	The Salon Interview \| Tobias Wolff
		But Tobias Wolff, who is one of our great contemporary masters of the short story, says that the difficulty of the short story is its own reward.
		Wolff, who lives with his wife and three children in upstate New York where he is writer-in-residence at Syracuse University, said during a recent interview with Salon that while he started out writing novels (none of them ever published), he grew up telling stories and hearing them told.
		His father (as both he and his older brother, the writer Geoffrey Wolff, have fondly written) was a wonderfully compulsive liar, and Wolff as a boy had a similar habit of making things up.
	www.salon.com /dec96/interview961216.html (560 words)

	hss_guth_disclit_3\|Student Site\|Preview: The World of Fiction\|Tobias Wolff
		Tobias Wolff was born in Alabama, and grew up in the state of Washington.
		To support himself as a writer, Wolff has worked as a reporter, as a waiter, and most recently as a professor of literature at universities such as Syracuse and Stanford.
		Wolff has published three collections of short stories: In the Garden of North American Martyrs (1981), which was awarded the Saint Lawrence Award for Fiction, Back in the World (1985), and The Night in Question (1996).
	wps.prenhall.com /hss_guth_disclit_3/0,5308,340502-,00.html (274 words)

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