Tobias Wolff
Tobias (Jonathan Ansell) Wolff Tobias Wolff was born on June 19, 1945, in Birmingham, Alabama. His father is Arthur Saunders and he is an aeronautical engineer. His mother is Rosemary (Loftus) Wolff. He married a clinical social worker named Catherine Dolores Spohn in 1975. The couple had two children together. They are Michael Patrick and Mary Elizabeth. His parents divorced when he was ten years old. His mother was remarried to a man named Dwight. He was a painter. He was also a violent and abusive man with strict household rules. From his stepfather's actions and rules he started to become a delinquent by stealing and lying as a teenager. (P. 2 Contemporary Literary Criticism) Wolff has also had military experience and is very well-rounded with many different jobs. From the time of 1964 to 1968 he served in Vietnam as a 1st lieutenant with the US Army Special Forces. He was a professor of English and Creative Writing at Stanford University from 1975 to 1978. Then later he moved to Syracuse, New York to be a peak professor of English. He worked there for 17 years from 1980 to 1997. Then he went back to Stanford to be an English Professor which he is still currently there. (P2 Dictionary of Literary Biography)
(P5 Dictionary of Literary Biography) Wolff's books This Boy's Life and In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War are a good insight on how he obtains his ideas to write. To go along with his influences, he is also praised by Carver, Annie Dillard, and Ann Beattie. r to become so successful, he had to become very dedicated to his academics prior to getting these great jobs. Just two years later he was included in the Guggenheim fellowship. Most recently he has been nominated for Los Angeles Times Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Thus, in 1975 to 1976 he received the Wallace Stegner fellowship in creative writing. (P2 Contemporary Literary Criticism) On the whole Tobias Wolff has been a very successful person. His influences are Raymond Carver, John Cheever, Ernest Hemmingway, Anton Chekhov, Paul Bowles, Sherwood Anderson, Guy de Maupassant, and Albert Camus. Furthermore The Picador Book of Contemporary American Stories, In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War, The Night in Question, and finally last but not least Old School. To go along with all his other awards he also received the Rea award for a short story in 1989. Lawrence Award for fiction for In the Garden of The North American Martyrs. He attended many outstanding universities upon returning from Vietnam. His brother was also a writer and indoubtly the greatest influence to him. He says, "All my stories are in one way or another autobiographical," and "Sometimes they're autobiographical in the actual events which they describe, sometimes more in their depiction of a particular character.
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