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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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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Wolff, Tobias." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Wolff, Tobias." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-WolffTobias.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Wolff, Tobias." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-WolffTobias.html |
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Wolff, Tobias
Wolff, Tobias (1945– ), American writer of short stories and memoirs, educated at Oxford and Stanford. In his first collection of stories, Hunters in the Snow (1982), Wolff introduces his recurring preoccupation with ordinary characters who are somehow alienated from society. 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 and violent stepfather. This was followed by an account, often comic as well as moving, of his experiences of service in Vietnam, In Pharaoh's Army (1994).
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Wolff, Tobias." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Wolff, Tobias." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-WolffTobias.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Wolff, Tobias." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-WolffTobias.html |
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