Wolff, Tobias
Wolff, Tobias( 1945– ),younger brother of Geoffrey, lived with his mother, who had “gone to deep cover” in Connecticut, Florida, Utah, and Washington, with frequent interruptions of Tobias's formal education. After Army service in Vietnam, Wolff took a degree at Oxford, and after a job on the Washington Post, then further study at Stanford, became writer in residence at Syracuse University. His story collections include In the Garden of North American Martyrs (1981) and Back in the World (1985). A novella, The Barracks Thief (1985), won the PEN/Faulkner Award. This Boy's Life (1989) is a harrowing memoir of growing up in his stepfather's house. The Jewish protagonist of his first full-length novel, Old School (2003), grapples with literary ambition and insecurity at a prep school in New England.
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