Tobias Wolff
Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (born June 19, 1945 in Birmingham , Alabama ) is an American writer who is best known for his short stories and autobiographical memories.
Life
From 1980 to 1997 he taught literature at Syracuse University in New York State at the same chair as Raymond Carver , with whom he was friends. Since 1997, Wolff is in Stanford (California) professor at the School of Humanities and Sciences of Stanford University , where he Creative Writing ( Creative Writing taught).
Wolff described his life in two volumes of memoirs: In This Boy's Life (1989) he described experiences from his school days and also described the bad relationship with his authoritarian stepfather Dwight Hansen (1912-1992). The book served as a template for the film of the same name, This Boy's Life (1993), with Leonardo DiCaprio , Robert De Niro and Ellen Barkin in the leading roles. In his book In Pharaoh's Army (1994) Wolff discussed his experiences in the Vietnam War .
In 1985 he won the PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction for his novella The Barracks Thief (1984) . He has been an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2009 and of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2014 .
Tobias Wolff is married and has three children.
Works
- Ugly Rumors , 1975-novel
- In the Garden of the North American Martyrs , 1981 - Short Stories
- Hunters in the Snow (dt. Hunters in the Snow ), 1982 - Short Stories
- Matters of Life and Death: New American Stories , 1983 - Short Stories
- The Barracks Thief (Eng. The barracks thief and five other stories , ISBN 3-492-03561-2 ), 1984 - Novelle
- Back in the World (dt. Again in the picture , 1985) - Short Stories
- This Boy's Life (dt. The heart is a dark forest / This Boy's Life , ISBN 3-499-22254-X ), 1989 memoir, film version 1993
- Best American Short Stories , 1994, editor
- The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories , 1994, publisher
- In Pharaoh's Army (Eng. In the Pharaoh's Army . Memories of the lost war , ISBN 3-8077-0325-X ), 1994 - Memoirs
- Two Boys and a Girl (Bloomsbury Birthday Quids) , 1996 short stories
- The Night in Question (German: The decisive night , ISBN 3-8333-0510-X ), 1997 - short stories,
- Old School (German old school , ISBN 3-8270-0527-2 ), 2003 - Roman
- Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories , 2008 (German Our story begins: stories , translated by Frank Heibert ; Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2011 ISBN 3-8270-0852-2 )
literature
- Katherine Abernathy: Tobias Wolff . In: Encyclopedia of Alabama . 2014.
Web links
- Literature by and about Tobias Wolff in the catalog of the German National Library
- Tobias Wolff in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Website by Tobias Wolff ( memento of October 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University (English) (archived at Internet Archive )
- Two radio interviews (1985, 1989) by Don Swaim on CBS Radio, RealAudio (English)
- Truth stifled a review by Tobias Wolff's publications in the London Review of Books (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 23, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolff, Tobias |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wolff, Tobias Jonathan Ansell (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 19, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Birmingham , Alabama , USA |