NEW YORK — Tobias Wolff, best known for his memoir "This Boy's Life," has been awarded a $20,000 prize for excellence in short story writing.
Wolff won the Story Prize on Wednesday for the collection "Our Story Begins." The finalists — Jhumpa Lahiri, for "Unaccustomed Earth," and Joe Meno for "Demons in the Spring" — each received $5,000.
The Story Prize was founded in 2004; previous winners include Mary Gordon and Edwidge Danticat.
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