Wolff, responding to the request of a young student, read that work out loud on Thursday. The story starts out linear and straightforward, and seems to stop dead about halfway through. “But wait, ...

PREVIEW This Writer's Life: Saved by Stories What: Author Tobias Wolff kicks off University School's 2009-10 Distin guished Speaker Series. When: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Where: University School's ...

Tobias Wolff brings together many of his classic short stories in Our Story Begins.

The young Wolff, it must be said, is the writer’s greatest character. It is as if Wolff needed the mess of real life to achieve the inexhaustible freedom of superb mimesis.

President Barack Obama presents the 2014 National Medal of Arts to Tobias Wolff. Alex Wong/Getty Images. ... The Barracks Thief is the story of three young paratroopers waiting to be shipped out ...

OLD SCHOOL By Tobias Wolff Knopf, $22 There is nothing maudlin in this wily and ...

Wolff, who also is known as a short story writer, gained popular acclaim in 1993 when his memoir was made into a movie starring Robert De Niro and introducing a young Leonardo DiCaprio. Last week ...

Tobias Wolff's new collection of short stories, Our Story Begins, centers on moments of quiet epiphany. "If you change the direction of your life by a little degree, years later you're going to ...

When we last caught up with Tobias Wolff, he had escaped the clutches of his brutal stepfather, gotten kicked out of the prep school he had cheated his way into, and joined the Army.“All I ...

The Night in Question By Tobias Wolff Knopf, 206 pages, $23 In The Hague, there are two self-portraits of Rembrandt I’ve found arresting, particularly in relation to each other. One is ...

Tobias Wolff drew a capacity crowd to the Humanities Lecture Hall on the first night of the 2011 Living Writers series. ... Wolff, responding to the request of a young student, ... “The story’s words ...