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In the Garden of the North American Martyrs | Author Biography
The widely respected author Tobias Wolff followed an unlikely and meandering path to such a position. As his memoir This Boy’s Life chronicles, Wolff’s childhood and adolescence were unconventional and unpromising. Wolff was born in 1945 in Birmingham, Alabama, the second son of Arthur Wolff, an aeronautical engineer, and his wife, Rosemary. When Wolff was four his parents separated. His brother Geoffrey stayed with his father, and Wolff moved on with his mother.
Wolff and his mother moved from Florida to Utah, to Seattle, before settling in the remote Washington town...
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