![]() Tobias Wolff’s stories are often compared to works by other famous short story writers, such as Raymond Carver or Richard Ford. ![]() He then wrote 2003’s Old School, a novel about plagiarism, and another collection of short stories in 2008, Our Story Begins. Wolff was also a productive short story editor and anthologizer from the 1980s to the 1990s, helping to publish works like A Doctor’s Visit: Short Stories by Anton Chekhov. His first short story collection, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, appeared in 1981, followed thereafter by a memoir, an award-winning novella ( The Barracks Thief), and a short story collection about his time in Vietnam. Afterwards, he taught creative writing at Syracuse University from 1980 to 1997, where he mentored other well-known writers such as George Saunders and Mary Karr. He then received a fellowship and began his professional writing career at Stanford University in 1978. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the age of 19, Wolff joined the army as a paratrooper during the Vietnam War, and then went on to receive his undergraduate and master’s degrees at the University of Oxford. He would later write about his nomadic childhood and his mother’s relationships in his 1989 memoir This Boy’s Life. Tobias Wolff, separated from his brother and father after his parents’ divorce at age four, grew up in various states across America, traveling with his mother and settling in Seattle, Washington. ![]()
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