Alexander Wolff

I spent a year in Berlin exploring the lives of my grandfather and father—Kurt Wolff, dubbed “perhaps the twentieth century’s most discriminating publisher” by the New York Times Book Review, and his son Niko, who fought in the Wehrmacht during World War II before coming to America. ENDPAPERS: A FAMILY STORY OF BOOKS, WAR, ESCAPE, AND HOME tells of the journeys of these two German-born men turned American citizens, and my own quest to make sense of their stories amidst rising rightist populism on both sides of the Atlantic.

For 36 years I was a writer at Sports Illustrated. My other books include Raw Recruits (a New York Times bestseller), Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure (a New York Times Notable Book), and The Audacity of Hoop: Basketball and the Age of Obama. You can learn more about me and my work at AlexanderWolff.com and TheAudacityOfHoop.com.