He was raised a Catholic and did not discover his father's Jewish roots until adulthood. Tobias had a semblance of a "normal childhood" with a paper route and membership in the Boy Scouts. His experiences are the basis for his most popular work, This Boy's Life. He and his mother traveled west before settling in the Northern Cascade mountains, where he attended high school in Concrete, Washington. Tobias was born in Birmingham, Alabama, where his father was an aeronautical engineer. His short story collections include In the Garden of the North American Martyrs (1981), and The Barracks Thief (1984). Tobias Wolff, born in 1945, is an American author, renowned for his short stories and memoirs, particularly, This Boy's Life, published in 1989.
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