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penchant中文意思翻譯

n. 喜好(傾向)

penchant常見例句

1 、a penchant for cornpone humor; cornpone political prose.───對(duì)民間幽默的愛好；質(zhì)樸的政論文

2 、But this may have more to do with the size and structure of the market and the American penchant for professionalism than with ownership.───但相對(duì)于所有制，這一點(diǎn)或許與市場的規(guī)模和結(jié)構(gòu)以及美國人對(duì)專業(yè)性的偏好更加有關(guān)。

3 、"I've told him about his penchant for taking on guys who could test him and at times making it into a mano-a-mano (matchup), which takes us out of our game.───“我告訴他他自己在對(duì)陣時(shí)的習(xí)慣，以防對(duì)手抓住弱點(diǎn)讓我們輸?shù)舯荣??！?/p>

4 、He seems to have a penchant for my children.───他似乎很喜歡我的孩子們。

5 、As dismaying as the psychotic penchant for very small dogs is, a coming penchant for very small robot dogs will be even worse.───盡管對(duì)很小的狗兒病態(tài)的喜愛令人沮喪，對(duì)非常小的機(jī)器狗的喜歡會(huì)更糟糕。

6 、Unfortunately, his penchant for the heroic persists.─── 不幸的是 他一直想做一個(gè)英雄

7 、Some of the gifts received by President Bush reflected his stated penchant for simple -country biking and cutting brush on his Texas ranch.───布什總統(tǒng)收到的一些禮物則反映出他的一些小愛好，比如越野自行車、在得克薩斯的農(nóng)場割草。

8 、He was a wiry, red-haired man with piercing blue eyes and a penchant for grandiose schemes───他瘦削結(jié)實(shí)，紅頭發(fā)，有一雙目光銳利的藍(lán)眼睛，愛搞宏偉的計(jì)劃。

9 、He could be timeconsuming with his penchant for anecdotes.───他可以因?yàn)閷?duì)軼事的愛好而浪費(fèi)許多時(shí)間。

10 、I simply have a penchant for intelligent conversation.───我喜歡充滿智慧的對(duì)話。

11 、She has a penchant for Indian food.───她愛吃印度食物。

12 、He too has a troubling penchant for the unexpected.─── 他和你一樣麻煩 有"出乎意料"的傾向

13 、" His most recent project, a family home in Oporto in Portugal, demonstrates this penchant with bold and colourful details inspired by Transformers.───”他最近的項(xiàng)目，一個(gè)家庭的家中，在葡萄牙波爾圖，證明了這一傾向的大膽和色彩繽紛的細(xì)節(jié)啟發(fā)變壓器。

14 、The penchant for black hair also extends beyond politics to China's increasingly cutthroat business world, where a youthful appearance is highly prized.───與此同時(shí)，中國政界人士對(duì)黑發(fā)的偏好也在逐漸向競爭日益激烈的商界蔓延，年輕的外貌在中國商界是件很值得驕傲的事情。

15 、Perhaps you simply have a penchant for the dramatic.─── 也許你有把事情戲劇化的傾向

16 、The museum fad is a refreshing contrast to the culture-destroying ethos of Mao's rule.But the penchant for vandalism still lurks.───博物館熱與***統(tǒng)治下的文化（破壞）風(fēng)氣形成鮮明對(duì)照，但是仍暗含破壞藝術(shù)的傾向。

17 、You know, I understand it has a penchant for innocent children.─── 我知道它嗜好天真無邪的小孩

18 、Further down the path it is as if the shadows are swallowing the surroundings whole, without a penchant of logic or drop of meaning.───促進(jìn)在它是的道路下，好像陰影忍受整個(gè)的周圍，沒有邏輯意思，愛好或下落。

19 、ever since a deadly fox-demon was sealed inside him when he was a baby, he's had a penchant for mischief that doesn't help his lack of talent in ninjutsu...───為了得到更多人的認(rèn)同，以及成為木之忍村的領(lǐng)袖隊(duì)的忍者火影，漩渦鳴人和他的同伴展開了一段又一段的冒險(xiǎn)旅程...

20 、She too had a penchant for thinking with the wrong part of her anatomy.─── 她也經(jīng)常會(huì)被身體的其它部位 左右了她大腦的思考能力

21 、Hangzhou citizens have a penchant for the crabs from West Lake, because they are provided by Nature and nowadays people tend to be suspicious of non-natural food.───杭州人對(duì)西湖湖蟹情有獨(dú)鐘，因?yàn)檫@些湖蟹產(chǎn)自大自然，同時(shí)，這也是由于如今人們對(duì)于非自然食品心存疑慮。

22 、Nor does the island's penchant for equality stop at work-sharing.───他島對(duì)平等的傾向也未因共享而停止。

23 、Known as “bling”or “bling bling”, this penchant held by many Hip-hop enthusiasts for gold jewelry is a manifestation of the materialist aspects of Hip-hop.───大家都稱之為“亮晶晶”或“金光閃閃”。嘻哈族對(duì)這種晶亮飾品情有獨(dú)鐘，這也是嘻哈族物質(zhì)主義至上的一個(gè)表現(xiàn)。

24 、Some fresh- men complain about his penchant for making commitments that he then may abandon with little notice───一些新議員抱怨他總愛作出承諾，然后又在人們不知不覺中放棄了。

25 、Thus making the massage weight loss surgery to lose weight as well as the purpose, and a penchant for body is suffering as early as possible, the recovery of bodybuilding is of a type of choice.───故按摩減肥術(shù)既能達(dá)到減肥目的，又能增強(qiáng)體質(zhì)，是肥胖者為早日擺脫痛苦，恢復(fù)健美身材而選用的一種好方法。

26 、He says that Imelda "had a penchant for luxury and opulence───他說馬可斯夫人伊美黛"崇尚豪華闊綽的生活。

27 、Brawn GP's Jenson Button may have been busy winning four of this season's opening five races, but he hasn't forgotten his penchant for taking part in triathlons.───布朗大獎(jiǎng)賽的巴頓可能已忙碌贏得四本賽季的開幕式的五場比賽，但他并沒有忘記他喜歡參加鐵人三項(xiàng)。

28 、After all you're a good 30 feet in length and you have a penchant for materializing out of any body of water, no matter how small.───你足有30英尺長，并且有高超的水遁技巧，無論那塊水域有多小你都能借助其現(xiàn)身。

29 、4. His rubbery look,and penchant for wild and extreme behavior has given him a notoriety he delights in.───他那似橡膠我眼神，以及對(duì)狂野和極至行為的酷愛，令他名聲遠(yuǎn)揚(yáng)，樂此不疲。收藏指正

30 、But given the electorate's penchant for ballot-box rebellions, all predictions at this stage look perilous.───但是考慮到選民們叛逆性會(huì)作用于大選，目前所有的預(yù)測都是經(jīng)不住考量的。

31 、I didn't survive this long to be killed by a chocolatier with a penchant for theatrics.─── 我活這么久 不是為了被一個(gè)戲多的巧克力殺手殺死

32 、Frank Steiner, Jr. is a German composer, but he's shown a penchant for Asian tonalities in recent years.───于1966年出生于德國弗萊堡。在那兒他學(xué)習(xí)了古典鋼琴，小號(hào)和音樂理論。

33 、For Barack Obama's detractors, the incident perfectly captured the new president's penchant for style over substance.───對(duì)于詆毀奧巴馬的人來說，這完美的詮釋了新總統(tǒng)重視氣派勝過實(shí)質(zhì)的嗜好。

34 、Meantime, their penchant for lending to the vast but ailing small and medium enterprises sector raises the prospect of a jump in non-performing loans.───同時(shí)，銀行非常樂于向規(guī)模龐大、但境況不佳的中小型企業(yè)領(lǐng)域貸款，這加大了不良貸款激增的可能性。

35 、a penchant for exotic foods;───對(duì)異國食物的嗜好；

36 、Given his endless patience and penchant for complex schemes carried out in secrecy, it is likely the full results of his machinations will not appear for years to come.───他有著無窮無盡的耐心，而且特別喜歡秘密實(shí)施極其復(fù)雜的計(jì)劃，似乎這個(gè)陰謀還要好幾年的時(shí)間才會(huì)產(chǎn)出最終結(jié)果。

37 、Growing affluence, a penchant for eating and a sedentary lifestyle have swollen the ranks of people who are overweight or obese in Hong Kong and China, doctors say.───醫(yī)生表示，在中國，人們生活條件的日漸富裕，對(duì)吃的日益講究，經(jīng)常喜歡吃完了就坐著。這些因素導(dǎo)致了肥胖人群數(shù)量越來越高。

38 、A3- year-old male bulldog, Riggs is a drooler with protruding teeth and a penchant for attacking noisy appliances, begging for crumbs and hopping on furniture.───三歲的公牛頭犬里格斯長著暴牙、著口水、攻擊發(fā)出聲響的電器、是搖著尾巴要面包屑吃，還喜歡在家具上跳來蹦去。

39 、Like America, China can still display a penchant for unilateralism that undermines all its careful diplomacy.───像美國一樣，中國對(duì)單邊主義仍然展現(xiàn)出一種興趣，這一點(diǎn)對(duì)它審慎的外交策略是一個(gè)削弱。

40 、Others have drawn overblown comparisons between his leadership style and that of Park Chung-hee, a former military dictator with a penchant for economic micro-management.───有些人曾將他的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)風(fēng)格和樸正熙進(jìn)行了過分的比較。樸正熙是前軍事獨(dú)裁者，對(duì)經(jīng)濟(jì)的微觀管理有強(qiáng)烈興趣。

41 、Romantics at heart with a penchant for playing the drama queen, the Lion will keep entertained with romance, fiction, drama or adventure stories.───內(nèi)心浪漫的獅子座喜歡讀浪漫故事、**、戲劇或冒險(xiǎn)故事。

42 、Maybe -- just maybe -- he's an emo hobo in disguise, walking amongst the world's non-transients, hiding his penchant for My Chemical Romance and malt liquor behind his clean shaven face.───也許-只是也許-他是一個(gè)情緒霍博偽裝，散步之間的世界非瞬態(tài)，藏匿他喜歡我的化學(xué)羅曼史和麥芽酒清潔剃光了他的臉。

43 、A man with a penchant for the spectacular, the Czech ace bagged one of Liverpool's best goals of the decade when he rifled home against Derby County in October 2000.───博格還有一身漂亮的帶球技術(shù)，在2000年主場迎戰(zhàn)德比郡，他的單騎闖關(guān)讓他收獲利物浦十年最佳進(jìn)球。

44 、a penchant for exotic foods───對(duì)異國食物的嗜好

45 、A 3-age-old male bulldog, Riggs is a drooler with protruding teeth and a penchant for attacking noisy appliances, begging for crumbs and hopping on furniture.───三歲的公牛頭犬里格斯長著暴牙、流著口水、愛攻擊發(fā)出聲響的電器、總是搖著尾巴要面包屑吃，還喜愛在家具上跳來蹦去。

46 、The dialogue, Mr Paulson's brainchild, departs from the US penchant for hectoring and advocates constructive dialogue to manage China's economic rise.───保爾森提議設(shè)立的這一對(duì)話機(jī)制，放棄了美國慣用的威嚇手段，而提倡用建設(shè)性的對(duì)話來應(yīng)對(duì)中國經(jīng)濟(jì)的崛起。

47 、Origins scientists with a penchant for geology have long recognized that minerals might provide attractive alternative surfaces where important molecules could assemble.───具有地質(zhì)學(xué)背景的生命起源學(xué)者早就認(rèn)為，礦物表面也許是另一個(gè)吸附、組合重要分子的地方。

48 、A personal inclination or eccentricity; a penchant or flaw───古怪的傾向:個(gè)人的傾向或怪癖;傾向或缺陷

49 、Their Gifts are a byproduct of their penchant for visions and riddles, as well as outgrowths of their pursuit of non-lethal combat methods.───他們的奇能產(chǎn)生于他們對(duì)于想象和謎語的興趣，也來自于他們對(duì)不致人死地的戰(zhàn)斗方式的追求。

50 、He says that Imelda "had a penchant for luxury and opulence.───他說馬可斯夫人伊美黛“崇尚豪華闊綽的生活。

51 、Neocons dislike his penchant for doing business with China.───新保守派討厭他與中國發(fā)展業(yè)務(wù)的興趣。

52 、A 3-year-old male bulldog, Riggs is a drooler with protruding teeth and a penchant for attacking noisy appliances, begging for crumbs and hopping on furniture.───三歲的公牛頭犬里格斯長著暴牙、流著口水、愛攻擊發(fā)出聲響的電器、總是搖著尾巴要面包屑吃，還喜歡在家具上跳來蹦去。

53 、We share more in common with mice than a penchant for cheese, we also like the same kinds of smells.───人類與老鼠的共同點(diǎn)不僅僅是對(duì)奶酪具有興趣，而且還喜歡相同類型的氣味。

54 、In his later years (Late in his life), Qiao Yu has become enamored of fishing (developed a penchant / special fondness for fishing).───晚年的喬羽喜愛垂釣，他說，"有水有魚的地方大都是有好環(huán)境的，好環(huán)境便會(huì)給人好心情。

55 、Hopeless romantic with a penchant for romcoms.─── 超級(jí)浪漫的熱愛浪漫喜劇的腦子

56 、I bring along a strong grasp of fundamentals in Finance and Engineering, an insider's experience of an emerging financial market, a penchant for teamwork and leadership and a zest for challenges.───我具有很強(qiáng)的金融和工程學(xué)的知識(shí)基礎(chǔ)，以及對(duì)金融市場的經(jīng)驗(yàn)、對(duì)領(lǐng)導(dǎo)團(tuán)隊(duì)與合作的熱情、敢于挑戰(zhàn)的勇氣。

57 、Naturally, not everyone among them is, but these peoples do seem to share a penchant for orderliness and punctuality.───當(dāng)然，他們之中不是每個(gè)人都這樣，但秩序和守時(shí)卻似乎是這兩個(gè)民族的共同愛好。

58 、These illnesses are the tragic consequences of the national penchant in Japan for turning things cute and cuddly into social status symbols.───日本人生性酷好把可愛和討人喜歡的東西變成社會(huì)地位象徵，這些疾病便是悲劇性的后遺癥。

59 、This was what mingling with humans and Garudans had wrought, he told himself, a penchant for the metaphysical.───他自言自語道：這是人類和嘎魯達(dá)人精巧的混合，純哲學(xué)的興趣。

60 、The star of the film is Hubie, a shy Adeli with a penchant for red hats and yellow scarves.The love of his life is Marina: she is very stylish.───The Adeli Penguins’ mating ritual is so romantic that Warner Brothers（華納兄弟影片公司） have made a movie about it, aptly called The Pebble and The Penguin.

61 、Beauchamp said that we’re likely born with a penchant for salt.───布尚普說我們很可能一生下來就對(duì)鹽有特殊的喜愛。

62 、He may also have to get used to someone with a penchant for picking as well as meeting the team before matches.───他必須要習(xí)慣于有個(gè)人會(huì)在賽前準(zhǔn)備會(huì)上興致勃勃的**上一杠子。

63 、Strengthening equanimity, centered within, he should cut off any penchant to conjecture or worry.───他應(yīng)該達(dá)到超然，凝思靜慮，斬?cái)嘁苫蠛蛺盒小?/p>

64 、The star of the film is Hubie, a Adeli with a penchant for red hats and yellow scarves.───影片的明星是"哈比"，一只害羞的埃德里企鵝，喜歡戴紅帽子和黃領(lǐng)帶。

65 、Californian condors appear to have a penchant for collecting pieces of junk, incorporating them into their nests, and feeding them to their nestlings.───加州禿鷲似乎有采集垃圾碎片的強(qiáng)烈嗜好，禿鷲將這些碎片置于自己的窩巢并把它們當(dāng)做食物喂給雛鳥吃。

66 、He drew fans as a beloved geek and cheerleader, hitting it off with engineers for his penchant for rattling off technical terms in casual conversation , current and former employees say.───他就像一個(gè)令人喜愛的明星一樣吸引了眾多“粉絲”，他總是在稀松平常的對(duì)話中連珠炮似地抖落出一大堆技術(shù)術(shù)語，僅憑這一點(diǎn)就能和公司的工程師們打成了一片。

67 、It is widely believed that the Peugeot family tired of Mr Streiff's autocratic ways and penchant for confrontation.───人們普遍認(rèn)為標(biāo)致家族已經(jīng)受夠了斯特雷夫獨(dú)斷專行的作風(fēng)和與人爭執(zhí)的嗜好。

68 、Known for their penchant for frilly hats, they will often be seen accompanying chaps, or picnicking with friends.───如果你對(duì)“紳士”這個(gè)詞不是很熟悉的人，我來解釋一下，紳士就是傳統(tǒng)地道的英國人。

69 、"Entirely suitable, I should have thought," says a man in a P D James novel, "requiring, imagine, infinite curiosity, infinite pains and a penchant for interfering with other people."───“完全適合，我應(yīng)該這么認(rèn)為。”P·D·詹姆士**中的一個(gè)男人如是說。“我以為它需要有永無休止的好奇心、不懈的努力和探聽他人事情的嗜好?！?/p>

70 、When you can control actions, this aspect can be positive as it shows a penchant for eliminating, by force, the unacceptable and unnecessary in your life.───如果你可以控制行動(dòng)，這相位可以是很積極的，因?yàn)樗@示出了透過強(qiáng)力，消除你生活中無法接受及無必要事物的傾向。

71 、They have an equal and opposite penchant for conspiracy theories.───兩黨對(duì)陰謀論有著一致或是相反的傾向。

72 、a penchant for something even though it might not be good for you───對(duì)某事的強(qiáng)烈愛好，即使它可能對(duì)你不利

73 、Peirsol tied that time at the Olympic qualifiers last month, but given his penchant for world records, he'll likely stroke past it in Beijing.───但是如果他有打破世界紀(jì)錄的強(qiáng)烈愿望的話，將很可能在北京奧運(yùn)會(huì)上實(shí)現(xiàn)。

74 、When Homo sapiens evolved onthe African Savannah, the ones with a penchant for trying new horizonsprospered.───在非洲大草原進(jìn)化時(shí)，那些敢于探索新大陸的人得以興盛起來。

75 、a penchant for something even though it might not be good for you.───對(duì)某事的強(qiáng)烈愛好，即使它可能對(duì)你不利。

76 、Dave has a penchant for taking risks: one semester he went steady with three girls, two of whom were stars on the school karate team.───戴夫喜歡冒險(xiǎn):一個(gè)學(xué)期他同三個(gè)女孩談戀愛,其中兩個(gè)是學(xué)校空手道隊(duì)的名將。

77 、She's after a killer with a penchant for antique weapons.─── 她在找一個(gè)愛好 古董武器的殺手

78 、His rubbery look,and penchant for wild and extreme behavior has given him a notoriety he delights in.───他那似橡膠我眼神，以及對(duì)狂野和極至行為的酷愛，令他名聲遠(yuǎn)揚(yáng)，樂此不疲。

79 、8.The star of the film is Hubie, a shy Adeli with a penchant for red hats and yellow scarves.───影片的明星是“哈比”，一只害羞的埃德里企鵝，喜歡戴紅帽子和黃領(lǐng)帶。

80 、The Juventus man has hinted at his penchant for the Azzurri, and his ambitions could be fulfilled.───尤文圖斯前鋒已經(jīng)暗示他希望**意大利隊(duì)，他的雄心壯志將得到實(shí)現(xiàn)。

81 、She has a penchant for champagne.───她酷愛香檳酒。

82 、We can't delay this case again because the defendant has a penchant for changing lawyers.─── 不能因?yàn)楸桓娌煌８鼡Q辯護(hù)律師 而將本案一再推遲

83 、A sorcerer with a penchant for destructive spells has been running amok in cities and towns in the area.───一位喜歡破壞性魔法的巫師在該地區(qū)的市鎮(zhèn)橫行。

84 、But in Taiwan, financial services remain hamstrung, thanks to the government's penchant for interfering with banks.───但在臺(tái)灣，由于政府動(dòng)輒干預(yù)銀行，金融服務(wù)業(yè)一直束手縛腳。

85 、It was during a summer league that Andersen's teammates took to calling him Birdman, for his long wingspan and his penchant for aerial acrobatics.───在夏季聯(lián)賽時(shí)安德森的隊(duì)友開始叫他“鳥人”，因?yàn)樗錾谋壅乱约翱?*技的愛好。

86 、Not that Spake approves of the American penchant for excessive courtesy.───斯佩克也并不贊成美國人過分殷勤的癖好。

87 、Many foreigners are offended by the North American penchant for jumping in to fill any gaps in a conversation.───北美洲人愛在交談間隙中**話許多外國人對(duì)此感到不愉快。

88 、On the strength of his avowed penchant for philosophical thought, they decided that he was a genius.───憑借他自己透露的對(duì)哲學(xué)思想的強(qiáng)烈偏愛，評(píng)論家們斷定他是個(gè)天才。

89 、A penchant for voluptuousness and an obsession for sensuality developed in my flesh, the intensity of which is difficult to describe.───否則我就會(huì)無力抵抗對(duì)快感的貪婪。一種對(duì)奢侈**樂的嗜愛與對(duì)縱欲的迷戀在我肉體中生長，強(qiáng)烈得難以形容。

90 、I think you might have a penchant for selfpity.─── 我覺得你好像很容易 自怨自艾

托拜厄斯·沃爾夫（Tobias Wolff）的生平介紹

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托拜厄斯·沃爾夫（Tobias Wolff）的生平介紹

Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (born June 19, 1945, in Birmingham, Alabama) is a writer of fiction and nonfiction.

He is best known for his short stories and his memoirs, although he has written two novels (most recently Old School).

Wolff is the Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, where he has taught classes in English and creative writing since 1997. He also served as the director of the Creative Writing Program at Stanford from 2000 to 2002.

Prior to his current appointment at Stanford, Wolff taught at Syracuse University from 1980 to 1997. While at Syracuse he served on the faculty with Raymond Carver and was an instructor in the graduate writing program. Authors who worked with Wolff while they were students at Syracuse include Jay McInerney, Tom Perrotta, George Saunders, Alice Sebold, William Tester, Paul Griner, Ken Garcia, and Paul Watkins.

Wolff attended The Hill School (from which he was expelled) after transferring from Concrete High School in Concrete, Washington. He holds a First Class Honours degree in English from Hertford College, Oxford (1972) and an M.A. from Stanford University. In 1975 he was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing at Stanford.

Tobias Wolff is best known for his work in two genres: the short story and the memoir. His first short story collection, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, was published in 1981. The collection was well received and several of its stories have since reappeared in a number of anthologies. Its publication coincided with a period in which several American authors who worked almost exclusively in the short story form were receiving wider recognition. As writers like Wolff, Raymond Carver, and Andre Dubus became better known, many proclaimed that the United States was in the midst of a renaissance of the short story. (The 20th-century North American version of realism these writers used was often glibly labelled Dirty realism).

Wolff, however, repudiates such claims. In 1994, in the introduction to The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories, he wrote,

"To judge from the respectful attention this renaissance has received from reviewers and academics, you would think that it actually happened. It did not. This is a rhetorical flourish to give glamour, even valor, to the succession of one generation by another. The problem with the word "renaissance" is that it needs a dark age to justify itself. I can't think of one, myself... The truth is that the short story form has reliably inspired brilliant performances by our best writers, in a line unbroken since the time of Poe."

Wolff's 1984 novella The Barracks Thief won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for 1985. Most of the action takes place at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where three recent paratrooper training graduates are temporarily attached to an airborne infantry company as they await orders to report to Vietnam. Because most of the men in the company fought together in Vietnam, the three newcomers are treated as outsiders and ignored. When money and personal property are discovered missing from the barracks, suspicion falls on the three newcomers. The narrative structure of the book contains several shifts of tone and point of view as the story unfolds.

In 1985, Wolff's second short story collection, Back in The World was published. Several of the stories in this collection, such as "The Missing Person," are significantly longer than the stories in his first collection.

Wolff chronicled his early life in two memoirs. This Boy's Life(1989) concerns itself with the author's adolescence in Seattle and then Newhalem, a remote settlement in Washington State. It describes his penchant for fabrication and his mistreatment by an obnoxious, boorish stepfather. In Pharaoh's Army (1994) records his U.S. Army tour of duty in Vietnam. A third collection of stories, The Night in Question, was published in 1997. Our Story Begins, a collection of new and previously-published stories, appeared in 2008.

Whether he is writing fiction or non-fiction, Wolff's prose is characterized by an exploration of personal/biographical and existential terrain. As Wyatt Mason wrote in the London Review of Books, "Typically, his protagonists face an acute moral dilemma, unable to reconcile what they know to be true with what they feel to be true. Duplicity is their great failing, and Wolff's main theme."

In 1989, Wolff was chosen as recipient of the Rea Award for the Short Story. Wolff has received the O. Henry Award on three occasions, for the stories 'In the Garden of North American Martyrs' (1981), 'Next Door' (1982), and 'Sister' (1985),

Wolff's work has found a wider audience through its adaptation to film. This Boy's Life became a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Ellen Barkin.

Tobias Wolff's older brother is the author and University of California, Irvine professor Geoffrey Wolff. A decade before Wolff wrote This Boy's Life, Geoffrey wrote a memoir of his own about the boys' biological father, entitled The Duke of Deception.

Readers of Wolff's memoirs will be interested to learn that Wolff's mother, having settled in Washington DC, eventually became President of the League of Women Voters.

Tobias Wolff is married and has three children.