Tobias Wolff est un auteur américain acclamé, reconnu pour ses mémoires, ses nouvelles et ses romans. Son mémoire fondateur, "This Boy’s Life", publié en 1988, offre une exploration poignante de son enfance tumultueuse, tandis que son œuvre de 1994, "Pharaoh’s Army", a consolidé sa réputation de maître du récit autobiographique. Son roman de 1984, "The Barracks Thief", a reçu des éloges critiques et a remporté le PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. En reconnaissance de ses contributions à la littérature, il a reçu la National Medal of Arts en 2015.
L’écriture de Wolff est célébrée pour sa précision, sa profondeur émotionnelle et son exploration de thèmes tels que l’identité, la moralité et la résilience. Né à Birmingham, en Alabama, en 1945, il a passé ses années formatrices à traverser les États-Unis avec sa mère et son frère après la séparation de ses parents. Son éducation catholique et la découverte ultérieure de l’héritage juif de son père ont influencé son style narratif introspectif. Éducateur dévoué, Wolff occupe le poste de Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor à l’Université de Stanford depuis 1997, où il enseigne l’anglais et l’écriture créative.
Tout au long de sa carrière, Wolff a reçu de nombreuses distinctions, dont le Story Prize, le Rea Award, le PEN/Malamud Award et le Los Angeles Times Book Award. Ses œuvres continuent de résonner auprès des lecteurs pour leur authenticité et leur maîtrise littéraire.
Romans indépendants
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Ugly Rumours
1975
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Old School
2003
Nouvelles / Novellas
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Two Boys and a Girl
1996
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Nightingale
1997
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Her Dog
2013
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Firelight
2013
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Powder
2013
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Mortals
2013
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The Deposition
2013
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Down to Bone
2013
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That Room
2013
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Flyboys
2017
Livres de non-fiction
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This Boy's Life
1989
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In Pharaoh's Army
1994
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A Federal Offense
2017
Collections
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In the Garden of the North American Martyrs
1981
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Hunters in the Snow
1982
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Back in the World
1985
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The Barracks Thief
1986
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The Night in Question
1995
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Our Story Begins
2008
Selected Shorts Books
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For Better and for Worse (By: Symphony Space)
1993
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Even More Laughs (By: Jonathan Lethem, T.C. Boyle, Philip Roth, Stephen Colbert, Miranda July, Christine Baranski, Alec Baldwin, Robert Sean Leonard, Symphony Space, Jerry Zaks, Julia Slavin, Harry Mathews, Thomas Meehan, Marian Seldes, Parker Posey)
1998
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Timeless Classics (By: Shirley Jackson, James Thurber, Raymond Carver, John Shea, Jack London, Edith Wharton, D.H. Lawrence, Richard Connell, Maria Tucci, James Naughton, Charles Keating, Symphony Space, Marian Seldes, Isaiah Sheffer, Steven Gilborn)
2006
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Falling in Love (By: E. Nesbit, Padgett Powell, Maile Meloy, Rick Bass, Edna O'Brien, Fionnula Flanagan, Hope Davis, Laurie Colwin, Ted Marcoux, Christina Pickles, Jane Curtin, William Hurt, Symphony Space)
2007
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Food Fictions (By: Symphony Space)
2007
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Travel Tales (By: Symphony Space)
2007
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Edith Wharton (By: Symphony Space)
2007
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Pets! (By: Symphony Space)
2007
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Tales of Betrayal (By: John Cheever, Tessa Hadley, John Biguenet, Adam Haslett, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Symphony Space, Galina Vromen)
2007
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Family Matters (By: Symphony Space)
2007
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Are We There Yet? (By: Symphony Space)
2008
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A Touch of Magic (By: Ray Bradbury, T.C. Boyle, Maria Tucci, James Naughton, Haruki Murakami, Jonathan Safran Foer, Kevin Brockmeier, Donald Barthelme, Daniel Gerroll, Symphony Space, Andrew Lam, Jerry Zaks)
2009
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The William Hurt Collection (With: Richard Ford, Aleksandar Hemon, William Hurt, Ron Carlson, Symphony Space)
2009
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Whodunit? (By: Ed McBain, Dashiell Hammett, Shirley Jackson, John Shea, Louise Erdrich, Nadine Gordimer, René Auberjonois, Fionnula Flanagan, Robert Sean Leonard, C.S. Montanye, Symphony Space, Isaiah Sheffer, Hattie Winston)
2009
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American Classics (By: Edgar Allan Poe, Joyce Carol Oates, Eudora Welty, John Cheever, Alice Walker, Donald Barthelme, John Sayles, Amy Tan, Symphony Space)
2010
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New American Stories (By: Sherman Alexie, Jhumpa Lahiri, Aleksandar Hemon, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Symphony Space)
2011
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Poe! (By: Symphony Space)
2012
Art of the Story Books
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A Sportsman's Notebook (By: Ivan Turgenev)
1852
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The General Zapped an Angel (By: Howard Fast)
1970
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In the Garden of the North American Martyrs
1981
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The Essential Tales of Chekhov (By: Anton Chekhov)
1998
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The Garden Party and Other Stories (By: Katherine Mansfield)
2004
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Wild Nights! (By: Joyce Carol Oates)
2008
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Continent (By: Jim Crace)
2008
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Tunneling to the Center of the Earth (By: Kevin Wilson)
2009
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Monstress (By: Lysley Tenorio)
2012
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The Essential Tales Of Chekhov Deluxe Edition (By: Anton Chekhov)
2015
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Mr. and Mrs. Baby (By: Mark Strand)
2015
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The Vanishing Princess (By: Jenny Diski)
2017
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We Are Taking Only What We Need (By: Stephanie Powell Watts)
2018
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Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls (By: Alissa Nutting)
2018
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Catastrophe and Other Stories (By: Dino Buzzati)
2018
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Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry (By: Elizabeth McCracken)
2019
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Hue and Cry (By: Edward P. Jones, James McPherson)
2019
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The Hurly Burly and Other Stories (By: Russell Banks, A.E. Coppard)
2021
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Loss of Memory Is Only Temporary (By: Francine Prose, Johanna Kaplan)
2022
Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith Books
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Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1 (By: Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, Alice Walker, Garrison Keillor, Annie Dillard, Richard Rodríguez, Patricia Hampl, Peter Hawkins, Frederick Buechner, Paula J. Carlson, Peter S. Hawkins)
1994
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Listening for God, Vol. 2 (With: Anne Tyler, John Updike, Gail Godwin, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Kathleen Norris, Paula J. Carlson, Peter S. Hawkins, Carol Bly, Andrew Dubus)
1996
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Listening for God, Vol. 3 (By: Tillie Olsen, Wendell Berry, John Cheever, Louise Erdrich, Mary Gordon, Tess Gallagher, Reynolds Price, Oscar Hijuelos, Paula J. Carlson, Peter S. Hawkins)
2000
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Listening For God, Vol. 4 (By: Robert Olen Butler, Allegra Goodman, James Baldwin, Kent Haruf, Sue Miller, Doris Betts, Paula J. Carlson, Peter S. Hawkins, Michael Malone, Alice Elliot Dark)
2002
Tobias Wolff Anthologies
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Winter's Tales
1980
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Winter's Tales 26
1981
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Matters of Life and Death: New American Stories
1983
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A World of Fiction
1983
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The Best American Short Stories 1992
1992
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The Picador Book Of Contemporary American Stories
1993
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Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1
1994
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The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories
1994
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The Best American Short Stories 1994
1994
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Listening for God, Vol. 2
1996
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Ten
1996
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Best New American Voices 2000
2000
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Listening for God, Vol. 3
2000
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Writers Harvest 3
2000
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The Campfire Collection: Spine-tingling Tales to Tell in the Dark
2000
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Listening For God, Vol. 4
2002
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
2005
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12 Short Stories and Their Making
2005
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The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers
2005
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The Best American Short Stories 2006
2006
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The New Granta Book of the American Short Story
2007
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The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction
2008
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Radio Silence
2012
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The Story Prize
2019
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Coming of Age in a Hardscrabble World
2019
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The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story