Tobias Wolff

Tobias Wolff
Wolff di Kepler's di Menlo Park, California, 25 April 2008
Lahir	Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff 19 Juni 1945 (umur 79) Birmingham, Alabama, Amerika Serikat
Pekerjaan	Penulis
Genre	memoir, cerita pendek, novel
Pasangan	Catherine Dolores Spohn (m. 1975; 3 anak)

Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (kelahiran 19 Juni 1945) adalah seorang pengarang Amerika.^[2] Ia dikenal karena memoir buatannya, yakni This Boy's Life (1989) dan In Pharaoh's Army (1994). Ia juga menulis dua novel, yang meliputi The Barracks Thief (1984), yang memenangkan Penghargaan PEN/Faulkner untuk Fiksi dan kumpulan cerita pendek. Wolff meraih sebuah National Medal of Arts dari Presiden Barack Obama pada September 2015.^[3]

Karya

Novel

• Ugly Rumours (1975) ISBN 0-04-823117-7
• The Barracks Thief (1984) (novella) ISBN 0-88001-049-5
• Old School (2003) ISBN 0-375-40146-6

Kumpulan cerita pendek

• In the Garden of the North American Martyrs (1981) ISBN 0-88001-497-0
  • "Smokers," Originally Published in The Atlantic, December 1976
• Hunters in the Snow (1981)
• Back in the World (1985)
• The Collected Short Stories ISBN 0-7475-3153-6
• The Night in Question (1997) ISBN 0-679-78155-2
• Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories (2008) ISBN 978-1-4000-4459-7

Volume yang disunting

• Matters of Life and Death: New American Stories (1983) ISBN 0-931694-17-5
• Best American Short Stories (1994)
• The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1994) ISBN 0-679-74513-0

Non-fiksi

• This Boy's Life (1989), sebuah memoir tentang masa kecilnya pada 1950an ISBN 0-8021-3668-0
• In Pharaoh's Army (1994), sebuah memoir tentang pengalamannya sebagai seorang prajurit dalam Perang Vietnam. ISBN 0-679-76023-7

Cerita pendek

• "Fortune". Granta (24 (Inside Intelligence)). Summer 1988.  (Subscription Required)
• "Memorial". Granta (44 (The Last Place on Earth)). Summer 1993.  (Subscription Required)
• "Bible". The Atlantic. Fiction Issue. 2007. 

Referensi

1. Adams, Tim (25 Januari 2004). "Wolff at the door". The Observer. London. Diakses tanggal 21 Mei 2010. 
2. "Tobias Wolff". This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape. Alabama Center for the Book, Auburn University. 30 Mei 2008. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2010-09-17. Diakses tanggal 21 Mei 2010. 
3. "Obama awards Stanford's Tobias Wolff a National Medal of Arts | The Dish". news.stanford.edu. Diakses tanggal 2015-12-17. 

Pranala luar

• Profile at The Whiting Foundation
• Übermensch Diarsipkan 2015-02-14 di Wayback Machine., an excerpt from the novel Old School in Narrative Magazine (Fall 2003)
• Jack Livings (Fall 2004). "Tobias Wolff, The Art of Fiction No. 183". The Paris Review. 
• Stifled Truth Diarsipkan 2009-01-11 di Wayback Machine., an appreciation of Wolff's publications to date, by Wyatt Mason in the London Review of Books
• Tobias Wolff reads his short story, "Say Yes" recorded at the Progressive Reading Series, San Francisco 2008
• 'Old School', an interview with Tobias Wolff in the Oxonian Review
• Jane Curtin reading Tobias Wolff's story "In the Garden of the North American Martyrs" di YouTube