The Big Read

What is The Big Read?
The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) designed to restore reading to the center of American culture.

This year, the libraries of the Greater Kansas City are joining together to promote Kansas City BigRead. Check out the Web site at: www.kcbigread.org to learn about events, contests and other BigRead throughout the metro area.

2009 book selection: Old School by Tobias Wolff
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About the author
“Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff was born on June 19, 1945, in Birmingham, Alabama. His father, Arthur, was an aeronautical engineer but also a pathological liar and supreme con artist, as detailed in the 1979 memoir The Duke of Deception, by Tobias's older brother, Geoffrey. As a result of one of these many deceptions, Tobias, who was raised and remains a Catholic, did not discover until adulthood that his father was Jewish. His mother, Rosemary Loftus Wolff, a waitress and secretary, was a woman of spirit, resilience, and great intelligence, who met the many reverses in her life with humor and determination." Learn more about Mr. Wolff by visiting the NEA's Big Read Web page.

Can't get enough of Old School?
Search the Library catalog for other books and short stories by Tobias Wolff.