![]() ![]() After she remarried, they lived in Newhalem, a small company town in the North Cascade Mountains, where his stepfather, Robert Thompson, worked at Seattle City Light. His parents separated when Wolff was five and his elder brother Geoffrey was twelve he lived with his mother in a variety of places, including Seattle, Washington, when he was an adolescent. (Wolff was raised and identifies as Catholic, like his mother.) The father had become Episcopalian, and Wolff did not learn about his father's Jewish roots until he was an adult. ![]() Wolff was born in 1945 in Birmingham, Alabama, the second son of Rosemary (Loftus) from Hartford, Connecticut, and Arthur Samuels Wolff, an aeronautical engineer who was a son of a Jewish doctor and his wife. Woods Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences. His academic career began at Syracuse University (1982–1997) and, since 1997, he has taught at Stanford University, where he is the Ward W. Wolff received a National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in September 2015. He has written four short story collections and two novels including The Barracks Thief (1984), which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He is known for his memoirs, particularly This Boy's Life (1989) and In Pharaoh's Army (1994). Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (born June 19, 1945) is an American short story writer, memoirist, novelist, and teacher of creative writing. Wolff at Kepler's Books in Menlo Park, California, 2008Ĭatherine Dolores Spohn (m. ![]()
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