In his story "The Liar," Tobias Wolff writes about James, a 16-year-old boy who can't stop fibbing -- not just little untruths but morbid whoppers. James informs a friend that his healthy-as-a ...

At a certain point I realized you can’t fake your way through life,” Tobias Wolff says, sitting in his house in the hills overlooking Palo Alto, Calif., the Santa Ynez mountains in the distance.

One of the best stories in Our Story Begins, a collection of new and selected older stories by Tobias Wolff, is called “The Liar.” It’s about a teenage boy who regales strangers with dark ...

It’s been over a decade since Tobias Wolff brought out a collection of short stories, but based on the evidence at hand it was well worth the wait. An acknowledged master of the form ...

PALO ALTO — Tobias Wolff is cracking up a lecture hall full of sleepy Stanford University freshmen before noon on a gray day. He is lanky and balding, with a trim mustache and round, silver ...

Tobias Wolff usually doesn't reread his old stories, but when it came time to assemble "Our Story Begins," a new collection of his work, he decided to tinker with each of the pieces he selected.

In his new collection, "Our Story Begins," writer Tobias Wolff presents 10 new stories and 21 published earlier. Mr. Wolff's characters often conceal the truth -- even from themselves. In the ...

Tobias Wolff was a "book-drunk boy" of 16, sitting in the parking lot of Convair Astronautics in San Diego one day in 1961, when he learned that Ernest Hemingway had died. "I was waiting in the ...

Compiled by Dave Itzkoff Tobias Wolff’s stories are alert for moments of revelation. Reviewed by Liesl Schillinger “Anders couldn’t get to the bank until just before it closed, so of course ...

Editor’s Note: Tobias Wolff will give a reading on Saturday, Feb. 5, at Paepcke Auditorium at 5 p.m. His reading is part of the Aspen Writers’ Foundation Winter Words Series. Tickets are $20 and are ...