Tobias Wolff

Tobias Wolff
Wolff u knjižari Kepler's u Menlo Parku, Kalifornija, 25. april 2008
Biografske informacije
RođenjeTobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff
19. 6. 1945. (1945-06-19) (dob: 78)
Birmingham, Alabama, SAD
SupružnikCatherine Dolores Spohn (vj. 1975; 3 djece)
RodbinaGeoffrey Wolff (brat)
Obrazovanje
Zanimanjeknjiževnik
Opus
Književne vrstememoari, novela, roman
Znamenita djela
This Boy's Life i In Pharaoh's Army
Inspiracija
Od
  • Anton Čehov, Ernest Hemingway, Guy de Maupassant, Raymond Carver[1]
Na
  • Larry Brown,　Tom Perrotta, David Sedaris, James Franco, Tucker Max, Stephen Elliott, Laura Moriarty

Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (19. jun 1945) je američki književnik, najpoznatiji po memoarskim knjigama - This Boy's Life u kojoj je opisao svoje odrastanje u porodici nasilnog očuha te In Pharaoh's Army u kojoj je opisao svoju vojnu službu u Vijetanmskom ratu. Wolff je od 1980. do 1987. predavao književnost na Univerzitetu Syracuse gdje mu se među studentima našao i Tom Perrotta.

Po knjizi This Boy's Life snimljen je istoimeni film gdje je njegov lik tumačio Leonardo DiCaprio.

Bibliografija

romani

  • Ugly Rumours (1975)
  • The Barracks Thief (1984) (novella) ISBN 0-88001-049-5
  • Old School (2003) ISBN 0-375-40146-6

zbirke priča

  • In the Garden of the North American Martyrs (1981) ISBN 0-88001-497-0
  • Hunters in the Snow (1981)
  • Back in the World (1985)
  • The Collected Short Stories ISBN 0-7475-3153-6
  • The Night in Question (1997) ISBN 0-679-78155-2
  • Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories (2008) ISBN 978-1-4000-4459-7
  • That Room (2008)

antologije

  • Matters of Life and Death: New American Stories (1983) ISBN 0-931694-17-5
  • Best American Short Stories (1994)
  • The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1994) ISBN 0-679-74513-0

Publisticika

  • This Boy's Life (1989) ISBN 0-8021-3668-0
  • In Pharaoh's Army (1994), ISBN 0-679-76023-7

Novele

  • „Bible”. The Atlantic Fiction Issue. 2007. 

Izvori

  1. ↑ Adams, Tim (January 25, 2004). „Wolff at the door”. The Observer (London). Pristupljeno May 21, 2010. 

Vanjske veze

  • Profile at The Whiting Foundation
  • Übermensch Arhivirano 2015-02-14 na Wayback Machine-u, an excerpt from the novel Old School in Narrative Magazine (Fall 2003)
  • Jack Livings (Fall 2004). „Tobias Wolff, The Art of Fiction No. 183”. The Paris Review. 
  • Stifled Truth, an appreciation of Wolff's publications to date, by Wyatt Mason in the London Review of Books
  • Tobias Wolff reads his short story, "Say Yes" recorded at the Progressive Reading Series, San Francisco 2008
  • 'Old School', an interview with Tobias Wolff in the Oxonian Review
  • Jane Curtin reading Tobias Wolff's story "In the Garden of the North American Martyrs" na YouTube
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