A master of the short story, Tobias Wolff’s collections include Back in the World and The Night in Question. His memoir This Boy’s Life was adapted into a film starring Robert DeNiro and Leonardo DiCaprio. A professor at Stanford, where he has taught creative writing for the past decade, Wolff has been nominated for and received numerous awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award for his novella The Barracks Thief.