Tobias Wolff

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
# Titre Année
1 Ugly Rumours 1975
2 Old School 2003
Nouvelles / Novellas
# Titre Année
1 Two Boys and a Girl 1996
2 Nightingale 1997
3 Her Dog 2013
4 Firelight 2013
5 Powder 2013
6 Mortals 2013
7 The Deposition 2013
8 Down to Bone 2013
9 That Room 2013
10 Flyboys 2017
Livres de non-fiction
# Titre Année
1 This Boy's Life 1989
2 In Pharaoh's Army 1994
3 A Federal Offense 2017
Collections
# Titre Année
1 In the Garden of the North American Martyrs 1981
2 Hunters in the Snow 1982
3 Back in the World 1985
4 The Barracks Thief 1986
5 The Night in Question 1995
6 Our Story Begins 2008
Selected Shorts Books
# Titre Année
1 For Better and for Worse (By: Symphony Space) 1993
2 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
3 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
4 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
5 Food Fictions (By: Symphony Space) 2007
6 Travel Tales (By: Symphony Space) 2007
7 Edith Wharton (By: Symphony Space) 2007
8 Pets! (By: Symphony Space) 2007
9 Tales of Betrayal (By: John Cheever, Tessa Hadley, John Biguenet, Adam Haslett, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Symphony Space, Galina Vromen) 2007
10 Family Matters (By: Symphony Space) 2007
11 Are We There Yet? (By: Symphony Space) 2008
12 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
13 The William Hurt Collection (With: Richard Ford, Aleksandar Hemon, William Hurt, Ron Carlson, Symphony Space) 2009
14 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
15 American Classics (By: Edgar Allan Poe, Joyce Carol Oates, Eudora Welty, John Cheever, Alice Walker, Donald Barthelme, John Sayles, Amy Tan, Symphony Space) 2010
16 New American Stories (By: Sherman Alexie, Jhumpa Lahiri, Aleksandar Hemon, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Symphony Space) 2011
17 Poe! (By: Symphony Space) 2012
Art of the Story Books
# Titre Année
1 A Sportsman's Notebook (By: Ivan Turgenev) 1852
2 The General Zapped an Angel (By: Howard Fast) 1970
3 In the Garden of the North American Martyrs 1981
4 The Essential Tales of Chekhov (By: Anton Chekhov) 1998
5 The Garden Party and Other Stories (By: Katherine Mansfield) 2004
6 Wild Nights! (By: Joyce Carol Oates) 2008
7 Continent (By: Jim Crace) 2008
8 Tunneling to the Center of the Earth (By: Kevin Wilson) 2009
9 Monstress (By: Lysley Tenorio) 2012
10 The Essential Tales Of Chekhov Deluxe Edition (By: Anton Chekhov) 2015
11 Mr. and Mrs. Baby (By: Mark Strand) 2015
12 The Vanishing Princess (By: Jenny Diski) 2017
13 We Are Taking Only What We Need (By: Stephanie Powell Watts) 2018
14 Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls (By: Alissa Nutting) 2018
15 Catastrophe and Other Stories (By: Dino Buzzati) 2018
16 Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry (By: Elizabeth McCracken) 2019
17 Hue and Cry (By: Edward P. Jones, James McPherson) 2019
18 The Hurly Burly and Other Stories (By: Russell Banks, A.E. Coppard) 2021
19 Loss of Memory Is Only Temporary (By: Francine Prose, Johanna Kaplan) 2022
Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith Books
# Titre Année
1 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
2 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
3 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
4 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
# Titre Année
1 Winter's Tales 1980
2 Winter's Tales 26 1981
3 Matters of Life and Death: New American Stories 1983
4 A World of Fiction 1983
5 The Best American Short Stories 1992 1992
6 The Picador Book Of Contemporary American Stories 1993
7 Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1 1994
8 The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories 1994
9 The Best American Short Stories 1994 1994
10 Listening for God, Vol. 2 1996
11 Ten 1996
12 Best New American Voices 2000 2000
13 Listening for God, Vol. 3 2000
14 Writers Harvest 3 2000
15 The Campfire Collection: Spine-tingling Tales to Tell in the Dark 2000
16 Listening For God, Vol. 4 2002
17 Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules 2005
18 12 Short Stories and Their Making 2005
19 The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers 2005
20 The Best American Short Stories 2006 2006
21 The New Granta Book of the American Short Story 2007
22 The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction 2008
23 Radio Silence 2012
24 The Story Prize 2019
25 Coming of Age in a Hardscrabble World 2019
26 The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story 2021