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Tobias Wolff

1945 - Today

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Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (born June 19, 1945) is an American short story writer, memoirist, novelist, and teacher of creative writing. He is known for his memoirs, particularly This Boy's Life (1989) and In Pharaoh's Army (1994). He has written four short story collections and two novels including The Barracks Thief (1984), which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tobias Wolff has received more than 1,237,188 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Tobias Wolff is the 4,679th most popular writer (up from 4,779th in 2019), the 6,340th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,980th in 2019) and the 507th most popular American Writer.

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tobias Wolff ranks 4,679 out of 7,302. Before him are Elias Khoury, Michalina Wisłocka, Peter Ackroyd, Paweł Huelle, Nikolai Tikhonov, and August Jakobson. After him are Samo Chalupka, Gillian Rubinstein, Jean Vautrin, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Sultan Bahu, and Shudraka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Tobias Wolff ranks 399. Before him are Hugo Fernández, Clive Russell, Fuad Muzurović, Nicholas Meyer, Jorge Serrano Elías, and Vladimir Nazlymov. After him are Karol Jokl, Patrick Malahide, Jean-Marie Poiré, Randy Brecker, Walt Frazier, and Brian Doyle-Murray.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Tobias Wolff ranks 6,340 out of 20,380. Before him are Stuart Gordon (1947), Tracey Walter (1947), Kagney Linn Karter (1987), Tabitha Babbitt (1779), Kerwin Mathews (1926), and Richard D. Zanuck (1934). After him are Bob James (1939), Charmian Carr (1942), Monique Alexander (1982), Helen Walton (1919), Anthony Denison (1949), and Louis Bromfield (1896).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Tobias Wolff ranks 507. Before him are Anita Loos (1889), Robert Lowell (1917), James Agee (1909), Zane Grey (1872), Nicholas Meyer (1945), and Eudora Welty (1909). After him are Louis Bromfield (1896), Mary McCarthy (1912), Jonathan Carroll (1949), Bo Goldman (1932), Helene Hanff (1916), and Shel Silverstein (1930).

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