Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (born June 19, 1945) is an American author. He is known for his memoirs, particularly This Boy's Life (1989) and In Pharaoh's Army (1994). He has also written two novels, including The Barracks Thief (1984), which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and an array of short stories. Wolff received a National Medal of the Arts from President Obama in September 2015.
Life and career
Tobias Wolff was born in 1945 in Birmingham, Alabama, the son of Rosemary (Loftus) and Arthur Samuels Wolff, an aeronautical engineer. Wolff's father was from a Jewish background, though Wolff did not discover that until he was an adult (Wolff himself is Catholic). Wolff lived with his mother in Newhalem, Washington up in the North Cascade Mountains, while his brother and father lived on the East Coast. He and his mother had drifted from place to place before she finally remarried and relocated to Newhalem. As a kid Wolff busied himself with a local paper route as well as attending Boy Scouts. After attending Concrete High School in Concrete, Washington, Wolff applied to and was accepted by The Hill School under the self-embellished name Tobias Jonathan von Ansell-Wolff III. He had forged his transcripts and recommendation letters in order to get in and was later expelled. He served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War era. He holds a First Class Honours degree in English from Hertford College, Oxford (1972) and an M.A. from Stanford University. In 1975, he was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing at Stanford.
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The story follows Tobias Wolff (DiCaprio), a city kid who lives his life out of a suitcase due to his mother’s ever-changing circumstances ... Unluckily, Tobias starts hanging around with the local delinquents and skipping school altogether.
And as Toby in This Boy’s Life—a stand-in for Tobias Wolff, on whose memoir the movie was based—DiCaprio walks the slender line between being a too-much-for-everyone bratty teenager and a fatherless ...
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‘We exist upon the fringe of the world’ ... “It’s quite noteworthy that the results in these cases have so far been so consistent,” said Tobias Wolff, a University of Pennsylvania law professor specializing in constitutional law and LGBTQ rights ... .
"It's quite noteworthy that the results in these cases have so far been so consistent," said Tobias Wolff, a University of Pennsylvania law professor specializing in constitutional law and LGBTQ rights ... "Courts get it wrong sometimes," Sharp said ... ....
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