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- Back in the World (Magill Book Reviews)
- In Pharaoh’s Army (Magill Book Reviews)
- The Night in Question (Magill Book Reviews)
- Hunters in the Snow (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
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- The Liar (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- The Rich Brother (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- Say Yes (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- In Pharaoh’s Army (Magill's Literary Annual 1991-2005)
- The Night in Question (Magill's Literary Annual 1991-2005)
- Theory of Short Fiction (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
- The Late Twentieth Century: 1960-2000 - Short Fiction (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
- The Barracks Thief (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
- The Barracks Thief (Magill Book Reviews)
- Old School (Magill Book Reviews)
- This Boy’s Life (Magill Book Reviews)
- This Boy's Life (Magill's Literary Annual 1990)
- Old School (Magill's Literary Annual 2004)
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- Author: Tobias Wolff
Other Literary Forms
Besides short stories, Tobias Wolff has published a novella, The Barracks Thief (1984), and a memoir, This Boy’s Life (1989). He also edited short-story anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories 1994 (1994).
Achievements
The quality of his work has earned for Wolff much critical respect and numerous literary prizes. He received a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in 1975-1976 to study creative writing at Stanford University, and even before he published his first book, he won creative writing grants from...
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