Tobias wolff the night in question5/25/2023 In the conversation that follows, recorded in April 2008, a thread of a previous encounter is picked up and Tobias Wolff and I spend some time talking about the relevance and value of short fiction and literature and various and sundry matters. And most recently, Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories. Additionally, he has published a novella, The Barracks Thief, and a full length novel, Old School. His story collections include Ugly Rumours, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, Back in the World, and On the Night In Question. Upon earning his degree, he briefly worked as a reporter at the Washington Post but found himself heading for Stanford University where he received a prestigious Stegner fellowship and the breathing room to devote to writing. (Wolff’s older brother Geoffrey, also an accomplished author, has written about their father in The Duke of Deception.)Īfter his army service, Wolff attended Oxford University and seriously dedicated himself to becoming a writer. Master storyteller and Stanford University mentor Tobias Wolff’s difficult and much traveled childhood and his year of service in Vietnam in Special Forces were the basis for his two well-regarded memoirs, This Boy’s Life (also a film with Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin, and Leonardo DiCaprio) and In Pharaoh’s Army.
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