Tobias Wolf.. Birthplace Born: June 19, 1945 Birthplace: Birmingham, Alabama Best Known For: This Boy's Life.

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Tobias Wolf.

Birthplace Born: June 19, 1945 Birthplace: Birmingham, Alabama Best Known For: This Boy's Life

Tobias Wolff The younger years Wolff grew up mostly in the Skagit River Valley of Washington State. His four years in the Army ( ) included a tour of duty in Vietnam. After graduating from Oxford, Wolff was awarded a writing fellowship at Stanford University in His first collections of short stories, In the Garden of North American Martyrs (1981) and Back in the World (1985), were both well received, but it was This Boy's Life that made Wolff famous. (The book was made into a 1993 movie with Robert DeNiro and young Leonardo DiCaprio.) He has since published In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War (1994), a memoir of his experiences in Vietnam, The Night in Question (1996), another collection of short stories, and the novels The Barracks Thief (which won the 1985 PEN/Faulkner Award) and Old Courtesy of answers.com

Continued Tobias’ childhood was much like the one of the character in his book This Boys Life mostly because he’s the mane character and the book is a collection of has childhood.

Transitioning Into Adulthood Tobias grew up to attend oxford and Stanford university Later he would become a college professor teaching such classes as: Graduate Fiction Workshop, American literature; development of the short story; autobiography

Tobias today Tobias is still alive today. He continues to write and teach using his past experiences as motivators and attention grabbers for his students and fallowing audience