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Toby Wolff - Coggle Diagram
Toby Wolff
Youth
Born June 19, 1945 in Alabama
Parents divorced when he was young, lived with mother.
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Completely shaped by mother, first memories of books and reading come from her.
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Favorite/Most influential authors include: Jack London, Hemingway, Robert Frost, and William golding.
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Themes Used
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Interested in people as a whole: the good, the bad and everything else
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Endings usually are full of energy and something unexpected such as revelation, humor, irony, symbolism, or lyricism
Other Works
Old School
A poor kid who wants to be a writer gets a scholarship to be in a prestigious boarding school and gets caught up in a writing competition with his richer peers.
The Night in Question
Collection of short stories that reveal human nature, specifically with dark humor.
Stories include a man shot at the bank, a woman visiting her father after a mental breakdown, and a sister who hates her brother's sermon.
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General life
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Won the PEN/Faulkner award, 3 O. Henry Awards and the National Medal of Arts
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This was done by Zach Bonavida, Max Burgess-Rubinstein, Lili Sturgeon, Maisie Rein, and Alex Williams.
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