# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tobias-wolff
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:27:25.642Z

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description: "Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff is an American short story writer, memoirist, novelist, and teacher of creative writing. He is known for his memoirs, particularly This Boy's Life (1989) and In Pharaoh's Army (1994). He has written four short story collections and two novels including The Barracks Thief (1984), which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Wolff received a National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in September 2015."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump