Robert Wolf (writer)

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Robert Wolf (born c. 1944) is an American writer, journalist, and entrepreneur. His writings focus on the American scene.^[1]

Personal

Wolf has lived in ten states. When he was younger he worked on a ranch.^[1]

Awards

Wolf is a past recipient of the Bronze Medal for radio editorial/commentary and the Sigma Delta Chi Award (1994), both from the Society of Professional Journalists.

Career

He co-founded the non-profit Free River Press, and acts as its executive director.^[2] He has taught college courses on philosophy and composition as well as G.E.D classes at the New Mexico State Penitentiary and biology classes in school in Brooklyn. He also wrote for the Chicago Tribune. In 1990, Wolf established, along wit Steven Meinbresse, the Free River Press. Since its beginning, Free River Press has published over 27 books; some of which have appeared on CBS News Sunday, NPR's All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and countless daily newspapers. He later produced a weekly program, "American Mosaic with Robert Wolf", where most of the stories are taken from Free River Press.^[1]

Works

In Search of America
Jump Start: How to Write from Everyday Life- published by Oxford University Press
The Triumph of Technique: The Industrialization of Agriculture and the Destruction of Rural America- published by Ruskin Press
Driftless Dreams and Ragnarok: The Doom of the Gods
Violence in the Holy Land: Witnessing the Conflict in the Middle East^[1]

Education

Wolf obtained his degrees from Columbia University and the University of Chicago.^[1]

Bibliography

The Triumph of Technique: The Industrialization of Agriculture and the Destruction of Rural America ^[3]
An American Mosaic: Prose and Poetry by Everyday Folk^[4]
Jump Start: How to Write from Everyday Life ^[5]
Story Jazz: A History of Chicago Jazz Styles^[6]
Crazeology: The Autobiography of a Chicago Jazzman (by Bud Freeman as told to Wolf) ^[7]
Iowa: Living in the Third World, published in The Des Moines Register on July 16, 1995.

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