Tobias Wolff
Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (19. jun 1945) je američki književnik, najpoznatiji po memoarskim knjigama - This Boy's Life u kojoj je opisao svoje odrastanje u porodici nasilnog očuha te In Pharaoh's Army u kojoj je opisao svoju vojnu službu u Vijetanmskom ratu. Wolff je od 1980. do 1987. predavao književnost na Univerzitetu Syracuse gdje mu se među studentima našao i Tom Perrotta.
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| Biografske informacije | |
| Rođenje | Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff 19. 6. 1945. Birmingham, Alabama, SAD |
| Supružnik | Catherine Dolores Spohn (vj. 1975; 3 djece) |
| Rodbina | Geoffrey Wolff (brat) |
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| Zanimanje | književnik |
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| Književne vrste | memoari, novela, roman |
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Po knjizi This Boy's Life snimljen je istoimeni film gdje je njegov lik tumačio Leonardo DiCaprio.
Bibliografija uredi
romani uredi
- Ugly Rumours (1975)
- The Barracks Thief (1984) (novella) ISBN 0-88001-049-5
- Old School (2003) ISBN 0-375-40146-6
zbirke priča uredi
- In the Garden of the North American Martyrs (1981) ISBN 0-88001-497-0
- 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
- That Room (2008)
antologije uredi
- 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
Publisticika uredi
- This Boy's Life (1989) ISBN 0-8021-3668-0
- In Pharaoh's Army (1994), ISBN 0-679-76023-7
Novele uredi
- „Bible”. The Atlantic Fiction Issue. 2007.
Izvori uredi
- ↑ Adams, Tim (January 25, 2004). „Wolff at the door”. The Observer (London). Pristupljeno May 21, 2010.
Vanjske veze uredi
- Profile at The Whiting Foundation
- Übermensch Arhivirano 2015-02-14 na Wayback Machine-u, 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, 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" na YouTube