Wolff’s father falsely presented himself in society and working life as a military hero and took on other guises, which eventually landed him in jail for more than two years. Wolff was born in Birmingham, Jefferson County, on June 19, 1945, to Rosemary Loftus and Arthur Samuels Wolff he had one sibling. The adventures and struggles of his youth and early adulthood and military service in Vietnam have provided Wolff with the inspiration for his fiction and the remarkable details of his memoirs. The memoir gained wider recognition through its 1993 Warner Brothers film adaptation of the same name starring Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin, and Leonardo DiCaprio. Author and educator Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (1945- ) is best known for his short stories and memoirs, most notably This Boy’s Life, published in 1989.
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