Born on 19 June 1945 in Birmingham, Alabama, to Rosemary Loftus Wolff, a secretary and waitress, and Arthur Saunders Wolff, an aeronautical engineer, Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff is the younger brother of Geoffrey Wolff, also a writer. Tobias earned a B.A. in English in 1972 and an M.A. in 1975 from Oxford University, and an M.A. from Stanford University in 1978. He has been a reporter for the Washington Post and served in Vietnam as a lieutenant with the U.S. Army Special Forces (1964-1968). He has held academic posts at Stanford, Goddard College, Arizona State University, and Temple University, and he currently teaches creative writing at Syracuse University. He was married in 1975 to Catherine Delores Spohn, who has worked as an art-history teacher and a social worker; they have two sons, Michael and Patrick.
This Boy's Life: A Memoir (1989), Wolff's autobiographical account of his development from boyhood after World War II to enlistment for service in Vietnam, was made into a motion picture starring Robert De Niro in 1993; it both charts a young man's powerful impetus to establish a masculine identity and questions the familial and social limits conditioning that development.
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