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Tobias Wolff (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Biography
Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff was born June 19, 1945, in Birmingham, Alabama, to Rosemary Loftus and Arthur Saunders “Duke” Wolff. His older brother, Geoffrey, also became a writer of fiction and memoirs. When Wolff was four years old, his parents separated; he lived with Rosemary while his brother stayed with their father. In 1955, Wolff and his mother moved to Seattle, where she remarried. The stressful period of this marriage is described in Wolff's 1989 memoir, This Boy's Life. Wolff managed to escape to a boarding school in Pennsylvania, from which he...
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