Wolff, an Emeritus professor at Stanford, is best known as a memoirist. Most notably, his 1989 book This Boy’s Life: A Memoir was adapted for the screen by Michael Caton-Jones, with Leonardo ...

One of the first books within a huge movement that restored respectability to memoirs, This Boy’s Life celebrates its thirtieth anniversary, and Tobias Wolff celebrates thirty years since being on ...

Tobias Wolff, 74, is an award-winning novelist, short-story writer and memoirist who received the National Medal of Arts. His 1989 memoir “This Boy’s Life” has been reissued by Grove Press ...

Tobias Wolff, acclaimed author of memoir This Boy's Life and former Syracuse University professor, has been named a finalist for the prestigious Story Prize, for his new story collection ...

"I was a liar," Tobias Wolff wrote in "This Boy's Life," his acclaimed memoir of a ... the English-Speaking Union's annual Ambassador Book Awards, given for interpreting American culture in ...

Fiction writer and memoirist Tobias Wolff is among a number of acclaimed writers taking part in public readings at DePauw University this semester. Wolff, whose books include This Boy’s Life and The .

SHAKER HEIGHTS - Tobias Wolff, author of the memoir "This Boy's Life," will present the lecture "This Writer's Life: Saved by Stories" at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 15 at University School's Shaker Campus ...

THIS BOY’S LIFE. By Tobias Wolff. Perennial Library/Harper & Row. $8.95. With great ease and humor, writer Wolff recounts his growing up during the 1950s and early ’60s, his journey from ...

Today she talks with Tobias Wolff, the author of This Boy's Life. His memoir of a difficult childhood was turned into a Robert DeNiro movie.