Tobias Wolff is the author of the novels The Barracks Thief and Old School, the memoirs This Boy’s Life andIn Pharaoh’s Army, and the short story collections In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, Back in the World, and The Night in Question. His most recent collection of short stories, Our Story Begins, won The Story Prize for 2008. Other honors include the PEN/Malamud Award and the Rea Award – both for excellence in the short story – the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Faulkner Award.  He has also been the editor of Best American Short Stories, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories, and A Doctor’s Visit: The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov. His work appears regularly in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, and other magazines and literary journals.

Fall 2014 Living Writers Series:

October 9: Ariel Gore

October 16: Kelly Link, Kim Stanley Robinson, Karen Joy Fowler

October 23: Andrew Lam, Kate Gale

October 30: Tobias Wolff

November 6: Helene Wecker

November 13: ASL Performer Patrick Graybill, Interpreter Aaron Brace

November 20: Kelly Link, Kim Stanley Robinson, Karen Joy Fowler

December 4: Katie Crouch

December 11: Student Reading

All events are free and open to the public from 4:00-5:45pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information, or email meperks@ucsc.edu.