In the epilogue of his latest book,
Wolff, a
Sports Illustrated writer for 36 years and the author or editor of nine books, is musing on his newly realized dual citizenship. He believes that holding a passport to both Germany and America is "a symbolic way of urging the best of each to regard the other as an example."
For Wolff, that's a hard-earned revelation.
In 2017, he spent a year in Berlin with his wife and two children to research his family history. In doing so, he unraveled family mysteries spanning two continents, three generations and several decades of world history.