American · b. 1945
Tobias Wolff won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1985 for "The Barracks Thief," a novella about soldiers at Fort Bragg. Wolff's memoirs—"This Boy's Life" and "In Pharaoh's Army"—are as celebrated as his fiction. He writes about coming-of-age, class, and military life with unsentimental precision.