Tobias Wolff was born in Alabama and
grew up in the Skagit River Valley of Washington state. He spent four
years in the U.S. Army and worked briefly at the Washington Post
as a police reporter. He won the 1985 PEN/Faulkner Award for his
novella The Barracks Thief. He has also won the 1989 Rea Award
for the Short Story, the Esquire/Volvo/Waterstone’s Non-Fiction
Prize and three 0. Henry Prizes. His short stories have appeared frequently
on both sides of the Atlantic in journals such as Esquire, Atlantic
Monthly, Encounter, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Fiction
magazine. His 1989 memoir This Boy’s Life was adapted
as a movie starring Ellen Barkin, Robert de Niro, and Leonardo
DiCaprio. In 1994, In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost
War, Wolff’s account of his time in Vietnam, was a finalist
for the National Book Award. Old School, published in 2004,
is Tobias Wolff’s seventh book. Wolff teaches at Stanford University.
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