Rea Award for the Short Story

[outro music] Tobias Wolff is the author of two memoirs and eight books of fiction, including the novels The Barracks Thief and Old School, and the story collections The Night in Question and Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories, which won the Story Prize in 2008.

Wolff is also a recipient of the Rea Award for the short story and the National Medal of Arts, among other honors.

Colm Tóibín, a winner of the International Dublin Literary Award, the Folio Prize, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, among others, is a fiction writer, essayist, playwright, and poet.

He's published more than a dozen books of fiction, including the novels Brooklyn and The Magician, and the story collections The Empty Family and The News from Dublin.

Salter was a member of the Air Force, serving in World War II up until 1961, while writing in his off-duty time.

His novel, A Sport and a Pastime, is regarded as a modern classic, and in 2010, Salter won the Rea Award for the short story.

As someone who is less familiar with Salter's work, I really appreciated getting the chance to listen to his writing.

Same here.