Tobias Wolff
Coming to UNC-Chapel Hill as a distinguished visiting writer in the creative writing program’s new living writers course, Tobias Wolff won the Los Angeles Times Book Award for his memoir This Boy’s Life (Grove Press/Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989), made into a movie starring Robert DeNiro, Ellen Barkin and Leonardo DiCaprio in 1993. His other memoir, In Pharaoh’s Army: Memories of the Lost War (Knopf, 1994), was a finalist for the same award and the National Book Award. It recounts Wolff’s experiences as a soldier in Vietnam. Prizes for his short stories have included two O. Henry Awards and the PEN/Faulkner Award for his novella The Barracks Thief and Selected Stories (Bantam, 1986). Wolff’s short story collections include In the Garden of the North American Martyrs (Antaeus, 1980), Back in the World: Stories (Vintage Books USA, 1986), The Night in Question: Stories (Vintage Books USA, 1997) and Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories (Knopf, 2008). He edited The Vintage Book of Contemporary Short Stories and The Best American Short Stories, 1994. Wolff teaches at Stanford University.
