托拜厄斯·沃尔夫

托拜厄斯·沃尔夫（英语：Tobias Wolff，1945年6月19日—），美国作家，出生于亚拉巴马州伯明翰，因擅长写短篇小说而著名。

生平

1945年，沃尔夫出生在美国亚拉巴马州伯明翰，沃尔夫读高中时曾经被学校开除。

越南战争爆发后，沃尔夫到美国军队去服兵役。

沃尔夫有赫特福德大学、牛津大学和斯坦福大学的硕士学位。

1975年起，沃尔夫开始在斯坦福大学执教，同时也斯坦福大学学习，学习英语和创意写作。

作品

《老学派》

《这男孩的一生》

《我的军旅生涯：战争回忆录》

奖项

瑞短篇小说奖

圣·劳伦斯小说奖

欧·亨利短篇小说奖

Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (born June 19, 1945) is an American short story writer, memoirist, novelist, and teacher of creative writing. He is known for his memoirs, particularly This Boy's Life (1989) and In Pharaoh's Army (1994). He has written four short story collections and two novels including The Barracks Thief (1984), which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Wolff received a National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in September 2015.

His academic career began at Syracuse University (1982–1997). Since 1997, he has taught at Stanford University, where he is the Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences.

Life and career

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. His father had become Episcopalian. Wolff did not learn about his father's Jewish roots until he was an adult. Wolff was raised and identifies as Catholic, like his mother.

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 and Washington when he was an adolescent. After she remarried, they lived in Newhalem, a small company town in the North Cascade Mountains, where his stepfather, Robert Thompson, worked for Seattle City Light. His father and brother lived on the East Coast during this period. Geoffrey knew nothing about where his brother was until he entered Princeton.

As a child, Wolff had a local paper route and was a Boy Scout. After attending Concrete High School in Concrete, also in the North Cascades, Wolff applied to and was accepted by The Hill School, located 35 miles from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He had applied under the self-embellished name "Tobias Jonathan von Ansell-Wolff III", adopting part of one of his father's personas, Saunders Ansell-Wolff 3d. Wolff struggled with the academic load, and he coped through substance abuse and "bec[oming] a school wildman"; during his final year, he was expelled.

Wolff served in the U.S. Army from 1964 to 1968, when he trained for Special Forces, learned Vietnamese, and served as an adviser in Vietnam. He holds a First Class Honours degree in English from Hertford College, Oxford (1972). After returning to the United States, in 1975, he was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing at Stanford University, where he earned an M.A. and remained as a lecturer for two years.

While continuing to write, Wolff taught at Syracuse University from 1980 to 1997. He published his first short story collection in 1981. At Syracuse he served on the faculty with Raymond Carver and was an instructor in the graduate writing program. Authors who had studied with Wolff as students at Syracuse include Jay McInerney, Tom Perrotta, George Saunders, Alice Sebold, William Tester, Paul Griner, Ken Garcia, Dana C. Kabel, Jan-Marie Spanard, and Paul Watkins.

In 1997, Wolff transferred to Stanford, where he is the Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences. He has taught classes in English and creative writing. He also served as the director of the Creative Writing Program at Stanford from 2000 to 2002.