Alexander Wolff

Alexander Wolff is an American journalist, author and former Sports Illustrated staff writer whose book Endpapers is a deeply personal investigation into his family's history across two world wars, two continents and the rise of Nazism. The book traces Wolff's German-American family through the twentieth century, examining how some family members fled Germany while others stayed, and how the moral choices made during the Nazi era continue to reverberate through generations. Wolff combines family memoir with historical investigation, drawing on letters, documents and personal research to create a work that is both intimately personal and historically significant. His journalism career at Sports Illustrated spanned decades, but with Endpapers he turns his investigative skills toward the most personal subject of all: his own family's complicity, resistance and survival during one of history's darkest chapters. The book addresses questions of guilt, responsibility and historical memory with honesty and emotional complexity. The audiobook edition brings his powerful family history to listeners interested in World War II history, memoir and the ways families are shaped by the moral choices of previous generations.