{"id":2311,"date":"2016-02-10T15:13:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T22:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2311"},"modified":"2016-05-20T10:49:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T17:49:25","slug":"wolff-jonathan-ansell-tobias-1945","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2311","title":{"rendered":"WOLFF, JONATHAN ANSELL (TOBIAS), 1945-"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Writer; university professor of English and creative writing.\u00a0 Born– June 19, 1945,\u00a0 Birmingham.\u00a0 Parents–Arthur and Rosemary Loftus\u00a0Wolff. Grew up in Washington State. Married–Catherine Dolores Spohn. Children– three. Education– Oxford University, B.A., 1972; M.A., 1975; \u00a0Stanford University, M.A., 1978. Military service:\u00a0 U. S. Army Special Forces, Vietnam, 1964-68. Taught at Goddard College and Arizona State University; at Syracuse University, 1980-1997; at Stanford. 1997-.\u00a0 Published short stories in many journals and anthologies. This Boy’s Life was made into a movie of the same name, 1993. Awarded many grants and fellowships, including\u00a0National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1978;\u00a0 Arizona Council on the Arts and Humanities Fellowship in creative writing, 1980; Guggenheim Fellowship, 1982. Recipient of many awards, including the St. Lawrence Award for Fiction, 1982; the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction, 1985; National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, 1989; Ambassador Book Award, 1990, the Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, 2014, and others. Received the National Medal of the Arts, 2015.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contemporary Authors online.<\/p>\n

Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Back in the World. Boston; Houghton, 1985.<\/p>\n

The Barracks Thief. New York; Eco Press, 1984.<\/p>\n

In Pharoah’s Army:\u00a0 Memories of the Lost War.\u00a0 Knopf, 1994.<\/p>\n

In the Garden of the North American Martyrs. New York; Eco Press, 1981.<\/p>\n

The Night in Question.\u00a0 Knopf, 1996.<\/p>\n

Old School.\u00a0 Knopf, 2003.<\/p>\n

Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.<\/p>\n

Ugly Rumours. London; Allen & Unwin, 1977.<\/p>\n

Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Best American Short Stories.\u00a0 Houghton, 1994.<\/p>\n

A Doctor’s Visit:\u00a0 The Short Stories of Anton Chekov. Bantam Books, 1988.<\/p>\n

Matters of Life and Death; New American Stories. New York; Wampeter Press, 1983.<\/p>\n

The Picador Book of Contemporary American\u00a0 Stories.\u00a0 Picador, 1993.<\/p>\n

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories.\u00a0 Random House, 1994.<\/p>\n

Written under name of Jonathan Ansell Wolff<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hunters in the Snow; a Collection of Short Stories. London; J. Cape, 1981.<\/p>\n

The Liar. Vineburg, Calif.; Engdahl Typography, 1989.<\/p>\n

The Stories of Tobias Wolff. London; J. Cape, 1988.<\/p>\n

This Boy’s Life; a Memoir. New York; Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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