{"id":9118,"date":"2017-03-08T12:55:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T17:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/award-winning-author-tobias-wolff-on-campus-friday-march-10\/"},"modified":"2017-03-08T12:55:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T17:55:33","slug":"award-winning-author-tobias-wolff-on-campus-friday-march-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/award-winning-author-tobias-wolff-on-campus-friday-march-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-winning author Tobias Wolff on campus Friday, March 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>World-renowned author Tobias Wolff, who was presented a National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama in 2015, is a featured guest speaker for the spring 2017 semester at Hudson Valley Community College. Wolff\u2019s appearance, scheduled for 11 a.m. Friday, March 10 in the Bulmer Telecommunications Center Auditorium, is free and open to the all<a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wolf_Tobias-photo-hi-res.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-72637 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wolf_Tobias-photo-hi-res-300x291.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a>. A book signing follows.<\/p>\n<p>Tobias Wolff is the author of the acclaimed novels\u00a0\u201cThe Barracks Thief\u201d and \u201cOld School,\u201d the memoirs\u00a0\u201cThis Boy\u2019s Life\u201d and\u00a0\u201cIn Pharaoh\u2019s Army,\u201d and the short story collections\u00a0\u201cIn the Garden of the North American Martyrs,\u201d\u00a0\u201cBack in the World,\u201d and\u00a0\u201cThe Night in Question.\u201d His most recent collection of short stories,\u00a0\u201cOur Story Begins,\u201d won The Story Prize for 2008. Additional awards and honors include the PEN\/Malamud Award and the Rea Award, both for excellence in the short story, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN\/Faulkner Award. His work is translated into more than a dozen languages.<\/p>\n<p>Wolff has edited several anthologies, including \u201cBest American Short Stories,\u201d\u00a0\u201cThe Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories,\u201d and\u00a0\u201cA Doctor\u2019s Visit: The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov.\u201d His work appears regularly in\u00a0The New Yorker,\u00a0The Atlantic,\u00a0Harper\u2019s, and other magazines and literary journals. A faculty member in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University since 1997, Wolff currently is the Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Emeritus Professor in the Humanities.<\/p>\n<p>This event is co-sponsored by the Cultural Affairs Program and the English, Foreign Languages and English as a Second Language Department at Hudson Valley.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Wed, 08 Mar 2017 12:55:33 +0000 by\u00a0d.gardner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; World-renowned author Tobias Wolff, who was presented a National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama in 2015, is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}