Tobias Wolff
Autor von This Boy's Life. Das Blaue vom Himmel
Über den Autor
Tobias Wolff was born in Birmingham, Alabama on June 19, 1945. He served in the military as a paratrooper during the Vietnam War. He received a B.A. in 1972 and a M.A. in 1975 from the University of Oxford and a M.A. in 1978 from Stanford University. He held faculty positions at Stanford mehr anzeigen University, Goddard College, Arizona State University, and Syracuse University. He was also a reporter for the Washington Post. His first collection of short stories, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, won the St. Lawrence award for fiction in 1982. His other works include Back in the World, In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of a Lost War, The Night in Question, Old School, and Our Story Begins. The Barracks Thief won the PEN/Faulkner award for fiction in 1985. This Boy's Life: A Memoir won the Los Angeles Times Book prize in 1989 and was made into a 1993 film starring Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio. He also won three O. Henry Awards in 1980, 1981, and 1985 and the National Medal of Arts in 2015. He edited several anthologies of short stories including Matters of Life and Death: New American Stories, A Doctor's Visit: Short Stories by Anton Chekhov, and The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Werke von Tobias Wolff
Meus Dias de Escritor 2 Exemplare
Bible [short story] 2 Exemplare
Kundenkommunikation in sozialen Medien Analyse und Steuerung der Kommunikationsprozesse (2017) 1 Exemplar
Precision Couplings and Line Shafts 1 Exemplar
Smokers 1 Exemplar
Zugehörige Werke
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Mitwirkender — 452 Exemplare
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Einführung — 380 Exemplare
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Mitwirkender — 345 Exemplare
American Fiction, Volume 1: The Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers (1990) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben — 16 Exemplare
Antaeus No. 64/65, Spring/Autumn 1990 - Twentieth Anniversary Issue (1990) — Mitwirkender — 12 Exemplare
Antaeus No. 37, Spring 1980 - On the Poetry of Stanley Kunitz — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
TriQuarterly 48: Western Stories — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
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Wissenswertes
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Wolff, Tobias Jonathan Ansell
- Geburtstag
- 1945-06-19
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Birmingham, Alabama, USA
- Wohnorte
- Seattle, Washington, USA
Palo Alto, California, USA - Ausbildung
- Stanford University (MA ∙ English)
Hertford College, Oxford - Berufe
- teacher
writer - Beziehungen
- Wolff, Geoffrey (brother)
- Preise und Auszeichnungen
- PEN/Malamud Award (2006)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award ( [2001])
Whiting Writers' Award (1989)
PEN/Faulkner Award (1985)
National Medal of Arts (2014)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2014)
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Rezensionen
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short… von Tobias Wolff
This collection strikes a good mix between well-known tales and exceptional pieces by lesser-known writers. The stories I read by authors I had never heard of before pleasantly surprised me.
½
I listened to the Audible version. Stories were chilling, prophetic, suspenseful, cautionary. Liked the reader very much!
I Feel Incredibly Ambivalent
I am really not sure how to feel about this very short story about the final moments and final memory of an amusingly awful caricature of a book critic. I wondered if reading a bunch of reviews would help, but this story seeks to be rather polarising with me bouncing around in the middle.
It is undeniably written with exemplary prose and some genuinely amusing, ridiculous, and thoughtful moments and ideas...but there is also a sense that the writing is overwrought and self congratulatorially smug. This is particularly apparent when coupled with the protagonist himself and how the ultimately the story is about the death of an contemptible (misogynistic, possibly racist) critic and the quaint and incongruous memory they have in their final moment.
Good art makes you feel something and I definitely feel things (I just can't tell how positive they are about the story or not), and works can simultaneously be great, while obviously sniffing their own farts, so...yeah. If I'm honest, I think there are so truly exquisite lines, but the smugness spoils it for me.
The performance is spectacular and it's still well worth a listen if you have Audible.… (mehr)
I am really not sure how to feel about this very short story about the final moments and final memory of an amusingly awful caricature of a book critic. I wondered if reading a bunch of reviews would help, but this story seeks to be rather polarising with me bouncing around in the middle.
It is undeniably written with exemplary prose and some genuinely amusing, ridiculous, and thoughtful moments and ideas...but there is also a sense that the writing is overwrought and self congratulatorially smug. This is particularly apparent when coupled with the protagonist himself and how the ultimately the story is about the death of an contemptible (misogynistic, possibly racist) critic and the quaint and incongruous memory they have in their final moment.
Good art makes you feel something and I definitely feel things (I just can't tell how positive they are about the story or not), and works can simultaneously be great, while obviously sniffing their own farts, so...yeah. If I'm honest, I think there are so truly exquisite lines, but the smugness spoils it for me.
The performance is spectacular and it's still well worth a listen if you have Audible.… (mehr)
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