He edited several anthologies of short stories including Matters of Life and Death: New American Stories, A Doctor's Visit: Short Stories by Anton Chekhov, and The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories. Henry Awards in 1980, 1981, and 1985 and the National Medal of Arts in 2015. But whatever goodwill he has earned evaporates when, in casual conversation, he expresses his opposition to interracial marriage. He is clearly proud of himself for what a considerate husband he is to help with household chores. This Boy's Life: A Memoir won the Los Angeles Times Book prize in 1989 and was made into a 1993 film starring Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio. In Tobias Wolff’s 1985 short story, Say Yes, a husband and wife are washing and drying the dishes. The Barracks Thief won the PEN/Faulkner award for fiction in 1985. His other works include Back in the World, In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of a Lost War, The Night in Question, Old School, and Our Story Begins. His first collection of short stories, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, won the St. He was also a reporter for the Washington Post. He held faculty positions at Stanford University, Goddard College, Arizona State University, and Syracuse University. in 1975 from the University of Oxford and a M.A. He served in the military as a paratrooper during the Vietnam War. Tobias Wolff was born in Birmingham, Alabama on June 19, 1945.
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