Craig Wolff

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Craig Wolff 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, and is currently a journalism professor at New York University.

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 World Trade Center bombing. He also covered the story of Tawana Brawley, which he and four of his colleagues turning into Outrage: The Story Behind the Tawana Brawley Hoax in 1990.

In 2003, as a professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, 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. Wolff later joined the Department of Journalism at New York University in 2005.