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 ...

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 ...

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.

Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories By Tobias Wolff Knopf, 379 pages, $26.95 Tobias Wolff’s short story “Bullet in the Brain” has remained lodged in mine for many years, not just ...

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 ...

Though it's Tobias Wolff's first novel, ''Old School'' picks up -- in its themes and brilliance -- where the author's acclaimed memoir ''This Boy's Life'' left off Skip to content Entertainment Weekly ...

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 ...

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 ...