About Tobias Wolff: A Profile

Tobias Wolff was born in Alabama in 1945 and grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He is the author of the short novel
The Barracks Thief, which won the 1985 PEN/Faulkner Award; two collections of short stories,
Back in the World and
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, which received the Saint Lawrence Award for fiction in 1982; and a memoir,
This Boy's Life. Mr. Wolff's work appears frequently in
Esquire, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, and other magazines and reviews. He lives with his family in upstate New York and teaches at Syracuse University.