This Boy's Life Resources

In addition to writing, Tobias Wolff has taught literature at Temple, Syracuse, and Stanford. Here's his Stanford bio.

Penn State fills in the details of Wolff's life after This Boy's Life.

The movie version came out in 1993, starring hunky preteen Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack and an extremely scary Robert De Niro as Dwight. It's widely available, but beware: they change some things from the book.

The UK newspaper The Guardian interviews Tobias Wolff. (Man, it's easier to do that when the author is still alive.)

Unwilling to let the English do anything by themselves, the Paris Review interviews Wolff as well.

The ever resourceful YouTube found a brief interview with a very young Leonardo DiCaprio talking about working on This Boy's Life.

Leonardo DiCaprio talks about This Boy's Life during the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award for Robert De Niro. Sounds like they dug each other.

An interview with Tobias Wolff courtesy of the NEA's The Big Read.

Here's a clip from the movie version of This Boy's Life, which the poster describes as "funny" even though it involves rampant child abuse. The Internet is a scary, scary place sometimes.

One big, happy family in a scene from the movie. Notice that Dwight's uniform is much nicer than Jack's.

Toby. And his mighty mustache.

Just an adorable shot of adorable Leo being adorable in the movie. Because he has fans.