The film is adapted from the biography This Boy's Life (1989) of the same name by American writer Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff .
——He was born in 1945, his parents divorced when he was 5 years old, and his experience after that was just like in the movie.
* When applying, he beautified his name "Tobias Jonathan von Ansell-Wolff III" by himself (his biological father's name is Saunders Ansell-Wolff 3d)
——The movie ended when Tobias got a scholarship from Hill University. Later, he was expelled due to exposure of false transcripts and recommendation letters.
——From 1968 to 1972, he participated in the Vietnam War, received special forces training, learned Vietnamese, and served as a consultant.
——In 1972, he obtained a First Class Honours degree in English at Hertford College, Oxford University . After returning to the United States, he received the Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing from Stanford University in 1975 . And finally received a master's degree (Master of Arts).
——He taught writing at Syracuse University from 1980 to 1997 and continued to write. In 1981, he published the first collection of short stories. It was during this period that This Boy's Life was written . He started teaching at Stanford University in 1997.
* Source Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Wolff
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