Wolff, Tobias
Wolff, Tobias ( 1945 – ),American writer of short stories and memoirs, educated at Oxford and Stanford. His first collection of stories, Hunters in the Snow, was published in 1982 . In this collection he introduces his recurring preoccupation with ordinary characters who are somehow alienated from society, whether because their dreams do not coincide with the reality of life in small-town America, because they have critical moral dilemmas they need to solve, or because they have painful confessions to make and difficult memories to placate. This was followed in 1984 by The Barracks Thief, a short novel set during the Vietnam War, Back in the World ( 1986 , stories), and The Night in Question ( 1996 , stories). He is perhaps most widely known for two volumes of autobiography; This Boy's Life ( 1989 ) describes his early adolescence and his difficult relationships with his unstable mother...
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