the author Geoffrey Wolff. A decade before Tobias Wolff published This Boy's Life, his brother wrote a memoir of his own about the boys' biological father, entitled The Duke of Deception (in which he alleges his younger brother was named after the Toby Jug). Wolff's mother later settled in Washington, D.C. There she became president of the League of Women Voters. Tobias Wolff is married and lives with his wife, Catherine Dolores Spohn, and three children in California. Awards and honors 1985 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for The Barracks Thief 1989 Whiting Award for Fiction and Nonfiction 2006 PEN/Malamud Award (co-winner) 2008 The Story Prize 2014 Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, Oregon State University 2014 elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2015 National Medal of Arts, US National Endowment for the Arts Bibliography Novels Ugly Rumours (1975) The Barracks Thief (1984) (novella) Old School (2003) Collections In the Garden of the North American Martyrs (1981) Hunters in the Snow (1981) Back in the World (1985) The Collected Short Stories The Night in Question (1997) Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories (2008) Edited volumes Matters of Life and Death: New American Stories (1983) Best American Short Stories (1994) The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1994) Non-fiction This Boy's Life (1989), a memoir about his boyhood in the 1950s In Pharaoh's Army (1994), a memoir about his experiences as a soldier in the Vietnam War. Short fiction References External links Profile at The Whiting Foundation Übermensch, an excerpt from the novel Old School in Narrative Magazine (Fall 2003) 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 1945 births 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford American memoirists United States Army personnel of the Vietnam War American male novelists American people of Jewish descent American Roman Catholics The Hill School alumni Living people Minimalist writers Writers from Birmingham, Alabama Writers from Syracuse, New York Stanford University alumni Stanford University Department of English faculty Syracuse University faculty United States Army officers Writers from California Novelists from New York (state) Writers from the San Francisco Bay Area PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners American male short story