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Geoffrey Wolff

Geoffrey Wolff (born 1937) is an American novelist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer. Among his honors and recognition are the Award in Literature of the American Academy...

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Geoffrey Wolff (born 1937) is an American novelist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer. Among his honors and recognition are the Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1994) and fellowships of the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Academy in Berlin (2007),[1] and the Guggenheim Foundation. His younger brother Tobias Wolff is also a writer.

Biography

Geoffrey Wolff was born in Hollywood, California, as the first son to Rosemary (née Loftus) and "Duke" Arthur Samuels Wolff. He is the older brother of the novelist and memoirist Tobias Wolff. Their parents separated when Geoffrey was twelve, his brother living with their mother, and Geoffrey with their father; their parents eventually divorced. He has described the adventure of his upbringing with his father on the East Coast in an acclaimed memoir, The Duke of Deception (1979), which was runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize (Tobias has treated with similar candor his own years with their mother in a memoir, This Boy's Life, published in 1989.).[2]

Geoffrey Wolff was educated at the Choate School, graduating in 1955; at Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude in 1960; and at Churchill College, Cambridge. He has taught at Robert College (now Boğaziçi University) in Istanbul, Turkey; at Princeton, and at the University of California, Irvine. There he was professor of English and comparative literature and, from 1995 to 2006, director of the influential Graduate Fiction Program. He has also been a book editor at the Washington Post and at Newsweek.

Wolff is the author of six novels; biographies of Harry Crosby, John O'Hara, and Joshua Slocum; a volume of essays, and other works of non-fiction in several genres. He has edited a selection of Edward Hoagland's writings. He lives in Bath, Maine, with his wife Priscilla.[3]

Partial bibliography

Novels

  • Bad Debts (1969) ISBN 978-0-671-20376-4
  • The Sightseer (1974) ISBN 978-0-394-48712-0
  • Inklings (1977) ISBN 978-0-394-49349-7
  • Providence (1985) ISBN 978-0-670-80461-0
  • El Club Final (1990), ambientado en la Universidad de Princeton ( ISBN) 978-0394578200)
  • La edad de consentimiento (1995) ISBN 978-0-340-63777-7

No ficción

  • El borde de Maine (2005), un retrato de viaje ISBN 978-0-7922-3871-3
  • El duque del engaño: Recuerdos de mi padre (1979), unas memorias ISBN 978-0-340-25469-1
  • Un día en la playa: recuerdos (1992), ensayos ISBN 978-0-679-40333-3

Biografías

  • Sol Negro: El breve tránsito y violento eclipse de Harry Crosby (1976) ISBN 978-0-394-47450-2
  • El arte de quemar puentes: Una vida de John O'Hara (2003) ISBN 978-0-679-42771-1
  • El camino difícil: Los pasajes de Joshua Slocum (2010) ISBN 978-1-4000-4342-2

Como editor

  • El lector de Edward Hoagland (1979) ISBN 978-0-394-50742-2

Referencias

  1. ↑ "Becario Berthold Leibinger, promoción de primavera de 2007" . Academia Americana en Berlín. Archivado del original el 4 de marzo de 2016. Consultado el 15 de marzo de 2012 .
  2. ↑ Prose, Francine (5 de febrero de 1989). "Los hermanos Wolff" . The New York Times .
  3. ↑ "Geoffrey Wolff | Penguin Random House" . PenguinRandomhouse.com . Consultado el 13 de septiembre de 2024 .