About the Author
Peter M. Wolf is a New York Times bestselling author. His previous books and research have been honored by The National Endowment for the Arts, The Ford Foundation and The Graham Foundation. His popular memoir, My New Orleans Gone Away, reached the New York Times e-book Best Seller list. His recent biography, The Sugar King: Leon Godchaux, A New Orleans Legend, His Creole Slave, and His Jewish Roots, attracted praise from distinguished historians such as Walter Isaacson, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nicholas B. Lemann .The Etruscans and the Jews, which begins in ancient Israel and ends in New Orleans, completes a multi-genre trilogy.
Wolf was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Yale (BA), Tulane (MA), and New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts (PhD) where his specialty was the history of art and architecture. His research has taken him to Paris as a Fulbright scholar, to Rome several times as a visiting artist/scholar at the American Academy in Rome and to Sardinia.
In New Orleans, Wolf serves on the advisory board of the Tulane University School of Architecture, and as a trustee of the Louisiana Landmarks Society. In East Hampton he is a trustee of Guild Hall and the Village Preservation Society.
The discoveries summarized in The Etruscans and the Jews reflect ten years of international travel together with extensive documentary research and interviews with world renowned geneticists, historians, archaeologists and archivists.
About the Author
Peter M. Wolf is a New York Times bestselling author. His previous books and research have been honored by The National Endowment for the Arts, The Ford Foundation and The Graham Foundation. His popular memoir, My New Orleans Gone Away, reached the New York Times e-book Best Seller list. His recent biography, The Sugar King: Leon Godchaux, A New Orleans Legend, His Creole Slave, and His Jewish Roots, attracted praise from distinguished historians such as Walter Isaacson, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nicholas B. Lemann .The Etruscans and the Jews, which begins in ancient Israel and ends in New Orleans, completes a multi-genre trilogy.
Wolf was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Yale (BA), Tulane (MA), and New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts (PhD) where his specialty was the history of art and architecture. His research has taken him to Paris as a Fulbright scholar, to Rome several times as a visiting artist/scholar at the American Academy in Rome and to Sardinia.
In New Orleans, Wolf serves on the advisory board of the Tulane University School of Architecture, and as a trustee of the Louisiana Landmarks Society. In East Hampton he is a trustee of Guild Hall and the Village Preservation Society.
The discoveries summarized in The Etruscans and the Jews reflect ten years of international travel together with extensive documentary research and interviews with world renowned geneticists, historians, archaeologists and archivists.