93,772 profiles ranked live

Back to the boardThe board

Tobias Wolff

✓ Source-basedfalling

Fiction writer, memoirist (b. 1945)

United StatesWritersBorn 1945 · age 81
CompareClaim
Fame55.3
Momentum0.5
Languages25
In century#10,711

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).

Also inDeutsch

Photos 1

Awards 3

2006PEN/Malamud Award
1985PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Guggenheim Fellowship

Connected to Tobias 6

Gerrit GrahamAlso in This Boy's Life (1993)Tom NoonanAlso in Bullet in the Brain (2001)Lorene ScafariaAlso in Bullet in the Brain (2001)Kathy KinneyAlso in This Boy's Life (1993)Chris CooperAlso in This Boy's Life (1993)Dean WintersAlso in Bullet in the Brain (2001)

About this person

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.

Country
United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
living
Dates
Born 1945 · age 81
Written about in
25 languages

Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.