"Tobias Wolff: Master of the Short Story" is the topic of the Feb. 8 University Forum lecture. Wolff will read from his own award-winning works.

Wolff received the P.E.N. Faulkner Award for his short novel The Barracks Thief and was a National Book Award finalist for The Night in Question and In the Pharaoh's Army. His autobiographical account of his abusive childhood, This Boy's Life, won the Los Angeles Times Book Award. His fiction also has been featured in Esquire, The New Yorker, and Granta magazines.

Wolff is currently director of the prestigious creative writing program at Stanford University.

The presentation will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Barrick Museum Auditorium at UNLV. It is free and open to the public.

The University Forum lecture series is sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and is underwritten by The Jerry Kalafatis Lodge Charitable Foundation and the UNLV Foundation. Wolff's lecture is also cosponsored by the Nevada Humanities Committee and the International Institute of Modern Letters.