Tobias Wolff

As a child, Tobias Wolff was a Boy Scout and used to work a paper route. He went to high school in the North Cascades where he attended Concrete High School before he went to The Hill School that was in Philadelphia. Wolff had applied to the school under the very long name of Tobias Jonathan von Ansell Wolff III as he took one of his father’s many personas who used to go by Saunders Ansell-Wolff III.

The best place to start is the Art of the Story series, the earliest of Tobias Wolff's multi-book series: it opens with A Sportsman's Notebook (1852) and runs to 18 books across 1852–2022, ending with Loss of Memory Is Only Temporary (2022). Tobias Wolff's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Tobias Wolff has 82 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1852 and 2022. 39 of them belong to 3 named series — the largest being the Art of the Story series with 18 books — and 43 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Tobias Wolff's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Art of the Story (1852–2022, 18 books), Selected Shorts (1993–2012, 17 books) and Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith (1994–2002, 4 books).

This guide splits Tobias Wolff's 82 books into 3 named series and 43 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Art of the Story (18 books, 1852–2022); Selected Shorts (17 books, 1993–2012); Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith (4 books, 1994–2002).