Tobias Wolff

Fiction, Memoir

Tobias Wolff, Professor of English at Stanford University, is the author of the novels The Barracks Thief and Old School, the memoirs This Boy's Life and In Pharaoh's Army, and the short story collections In the Garden of the North American MartyrsBack in the World, and The Night in Question. His collection of short stories Our Story Begins won The Story Prize for 2008. Other honors include the PEN/Malamud Award and the Rea Award - both for excellence in the short story - the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Faulkner Award.  He has also been the editor of Best American Short StoriesThe Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories, and A Doctor's Visit: The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov. His work appears regularly in The New YorkerThe AtlanticHarper's, and other magazines and literary journals.


Festival Years: 2016