His mother, born Rosemary Loftus, was a pretty Irish-American girl, growing up in Southern California in the 1920s. Wolff was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on July 19, 1945. He served on the faculty at Syrcacuse University for 17 years before taking a professorship at Stanford in 1997. Wolff's writing career also includes such notable books as Old School and In Pharoah's Army. It was later made into a 1993 movie of the same name, much of it shot in Concrete, Washington, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the teenaged Wolff, Ellen Barkin as his beautiful, tragic, and spirited mother, and Robert DeNiro as his stepfather from hell. Thirty years after its 1989 publication, The New York Times included This Boy's Life on its list of the 50 best memoirs of the previous 50 years, describing it as "powerful and impeccably written" and "a classic of the genre." Critics have compared it to Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac's On the Road, and J. Tobias Wolff is a writer and novelist best known for his memoir This Boy's Life, which tells the story of Wolff's adolescence in 1950s Washington State.
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