In describing The Night in Question, (Alfred A. His works have been published in numerous literary magazines including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, Granta, Story, Esquire and Antaeus. In Pharaoh's Army, Wolff's lucid memoir of the Vietnam War, won the Esquire-Volvo-Waterstone Prize for Nonfiction in 1994 and was a finalist for the National Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Award. This Boy's Life was made into the 1993 movie of the same name starring Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin and Leonardo DiCaprio. Earlier this year he was admitted to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and has received numerous awards for his work including: the 1985 Pen/Faulkner Award, the Whiting Foundation Award in 1990, and Lila-Wallace Reader's Digest Award in 1993, among others. Wolff, the Melvin and Bill Lane Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University, also is the author of two highly acclaimed memoirs, This Boy's Life and In Pharaoh's Army. The event is free and open to the public. Wolff, author of such brilliant short story collections as The Night in Question, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs and The Barracks Thief, is the latest guest of the 2001 James McConkey Reader in American Fiction series at Cornell. Cornell Auditorium at Cornell University. Master story writer Tobias Wolff will give a public reading Friday, Sept.
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