Craig Wolff
'Craig Wolff ' http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=772140 is a journalist and author. After receiving his B.A. from the University of Rochester in 1979, he went on to become a sports, feature, and news writer for The New York Times. While reporting for The New York Times from 1983 to 1994, Wolff was part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1993 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. He was also nominated for a Pulitzer when he covered the story of Tawana Brawley. In addition to his coverage of the Tawana Brawley story, along with four of his fellow New York Times journalists, he co-authored Outrage: The Story Behind the Tawana Brawley Hoax, which was published by Bantam in 1990. Other books he has authored are Tennis Superstars: The Men (1989) and My Heart Will Cross This Ocean: My Story, My Son, Amadou (2003). His most recent book, which was written with Amadou Diallo's mother Kadiatou during his professorship at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, recounts "an unexpectedly enchanting, unflinching story of Amadou's upbringing, culture, and his mother’s life struggles in their native Guinea." It won a 2004 Christopher Award. Wolff joined the Department of Journalism at New York University as a Clinical Associate Professor in 2005. He is currently working on a book entitled Mays, which traces the life of baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays from segregated Birmingham to the major leagues.
In New York University, he refused to grade a story about a first conversation between a North Vietnamese journalist and Henry Kissinger in order to force the student to take his next class, although she told him she would not be able to do so. He punished the student for skipping two classes to receive a media award in a United Nations summit. The case is under investigation by the Office of Civil Rights.''
Books
- Tennis Superstars: The Men
- Outrage: The Story Behind the Tawana Brawley Hoax
- My Heart Will Cross This Ocean: My Story, My Son, Amadou
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