Tobias Wolff

Whether he is evoking the blind carnage of the Tet offensive, the theatrics of his fellow Americans, or the unraveling of his own illusions, Wolff brings to this work the same uncanny eye for detail, pitiless candor and mordant wit that made This Boy's Life a modern classic...

The author of the genre-defining memoir This Boy’s Life, the PEN/Faulkner Award–winning novella The Barracks Thief, and short stories acclaimed as modern classics, Tobias Wolff now gives us his first novel. Determined to fit in at his New England prep school, the narrator has learned to...

In this potent new short-story collection, the first in over a decade, Wolff displays his mastery over a quarter century...

First published in 1989, this memoir has become a classic of the genre....

The story of a book critic and his final thoughts from short-story master Tobias Wolff...

A story of siblings and faith from short-story master Tobias Wolff....

Tobias Wolff's masterful short story about one woman's quiet revenge on the pomposity and arrogance of academia....

In this short story from Our Story Begins, three friends confront their relationships to one another as they work on plans to build their very own airplane....

A classic tale of brotherly love and rivalry from short story master Tobias Wolff....

Ann's friends envy her. None of their husbands even lift a finger to help with the household chores....

Miller is unlucky. That's why he's in a foxhole with the rest of Bravo Company. That's why his dad is gone and his mother remarried....

Gilbert saw Mary Ann first, but the second time he sees her she is dancing with his best friend, Rafe....