Name Craig Wolff | Role Journalist | |
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Books My Heart Will Cross This Ocean: My Story, My Son, Amadou, Tennis Superstars: The Men, October Songs | ||
Eldridge & Co.: Craig Wolff
Craig Wolff is an American journalist and author and a former sports, feature, and news writer for The New York Times. He was a journalism professor at New York University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is currently an editor at The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J.
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While reporting for The New York Times, Wolff was part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He also covered the story of Tawana Brawley, which he and four of his colleagues turned into Outrage: The Story Behind the Tawana Brawley Hoax in 1990.
In 2003, he co-wrote My Heart Will Cross This Ocean: My Story, My Son, Amadou with Kadiatou Diallo, the mother of police brutality victim Amadou Diallo. It won a 2004 Christopher Award for "work that raises the human spirit."