Alexander Wolff has been on the staff of Sports Illustrated since September 1980. Wolff is the author or co-author of six books about basketball

A past president of the United States Basketball Writers Association, as well as a member of the Pro Basketball Writers Association and the International Sports Press Association, Wolff has been honored more than a dozen times by the first two organizations, including with induction into the USBWA Hall of Fame in 2002.

As a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University in 2002, he taught an undergraduate seminar called Writing About Sports and the Wider World. He has been a speaker, presenter or respondent at the Fundacion Pedro Ferrandiz in Madrid (1994); The Sports Ethics Summit in Tampa (1998); the Conference on Ethics and the Sports Media in Kingston , R.I. (2001); The Summit on Sports Reform in Bolton Landing, N.Y. (2003); and the Swiss Foundation for World Affairs in Washington , D.C. (2004). He has also appeared before many civic, youth and campus audiences, and on Good Morning America, Nightline, the Today show, as well as on numerous national cable TV and commercial and public radio news and talk shows.

Wolff attended Princeton , where he earned his B.A. in History with honors in 1980.

He and his wife, Vanessa James Wolff, a film editor, live near Middlebury , Vt. , with their young son and daughter.