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Geoffrey Wolff
Father of Justin Wolff, Geoffrey Wolff was book critic from 1964 to 1969 for the Washington Post; from 1969–71, he was Newsweek’s literary critic. He has taught and/or served as writer-in-residence at Middlebury and Goddard Colleges and Columbia, Princeton, Brown, and Brandeis Universities.
July 3, 1996, page 40 Bad News (fatherhood and mortality)
Sept. 11, 2003, page 88 Reading (interview of Wolff by Judith Moore)
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Articles by Geoffrey Wolff
Bad News
Fatherhood and mortality
A few hours before dawn a bedside phone woke my wife and me. My older son Nicholas, nine, was at a lakeside summer camp in Vermont. This was many years ago, but the subsequent conversation ...
La Jolla, 1962
A father, two sons, and the merciless summer sun
On the hot, breathless, soft, fragrant afternoon of my graduation from Princeton it seemed that everything good was note merely latant but unavoidable, folded and in the bag. I’d worked like a Turk those past ...
