Tobias Wolff Writer

Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (born June 19, 1945) is an American author. He is known for his memoirs, particularly This Boy's Life (1989) and In Pharaoh's Army. He has also written two novels, including The Barracks Thief, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and an array of short stories.

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Alias (AKA)	Wolff Tobias Jonathan Ansell (full name); von Ansell-Wolff Tobias Jonathan III (pseudonym)
Birth date	June 19, 1945
Birth name	Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff
Birth place	Birmingham Alabama

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genre	Memoir
influenced	David Sedaris Stephen Elliott (author) Tom Perrotta Tucker Max James Franco Larry Brown Laura Moriarty (novelist)
influenced by	Anton Chekhov Ernest Hemingway Guy de Maupassant Raymond Carver