Tobias Wolff is perhaps best known by the American reading public for his memoir This Boy’s Life, which was later made into an ________ movie, but his literary reputation was first _________ on the merit of his short stories. He is still _______ known for these short stories, in which he ______ many characters’ voices and a wide range of emotions.

Since the early 1980s, Wolff has produced several _________ of short stories. These fictions focus on the important relationships and the moral choices in everyday people’s lives: men and women, husbands and wives, parents and children. As scholar Marilyn C. Wesley writes in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Wolff writes about the basic needs of Everyman, written with a respect that Everyman _______.