Nationally known author Tobias Wolff will come to the University today to lead a graduate fiction workshop and read his own writings.
At 1:30 p.m. in the EMU Fir Room, Wolff will lead a writing workshop for students in the graduate fiction program, and at 8 p.m. in the Knight Library Browsing Room Wolff will read from his own work, said Laurie Lynn Drummond, director of fiction for the University’s Creative Writing Program. Wolff plans to meet with audience members and sign books after his reading, Drummond said, and copies of the stories for the workshop are available in the creative writing office in 144 Columbia.
According to his online biography, Wolff has written two memoirs: “In Pharaoh’s Army” and “This Boy’s Life,” which was made into a motion picture in 1993. In addition, Wolff has written a short novel, three collections of short stories and the novel “Old School.” After he fought in the Vietnam War, he studied English at the University of Oxford and now teaches humanities at Stanford University.
Writers consider Wolff “one of the masters of the contemporary short story,” Drummond said.
Both events are free and open to the public.