Tobias Wolff

Tobias Wolff was born in Alabama in 1945 and is considered one of the leading contemporary American short story writers. He studied Literature at the Universities of Oxford and Stanford, worked for a short time as a journalist at the Washington Post and subsequently taught in the Creative Writing Department at Syracuse University in New York. Since 1997, he has been a professor at Stanford University.

In addition to short stories, he has also published novellas and autobiographical works.
His novella *The Camp Thief* (Polis, 2009) won the Pen/Faulkner Award in 1985, and his autobiographical book *This Boy’s Life* was adapted for the cinema by Michael Caton-Jones, starring Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio and Ellen Barkin.

His work has also been honoured with the Story Prize, the Rea Award, the PEN/Malamud Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award.

In September 2015, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts by Barack Obama for his contribution to culture.