Facts: - caption: carlo wolff , august 2006 - influences: james , tom wolfe , elvis presley , kurt h. wolff t. -lrb- my father , b. 1912/5/20 , d. 2003/9/14 -rrb- farrell . , william faulkner , robert christgau - genre: book business profiles reviews , music criticism , personal essays , - spouse: karen sandstrom http://www.karensandstrom.blogspot.com - influenced: bentley little , scott sigler , sarah pinborough - children: lylah rose sandstrom wolff katy nozar - birth date: 22 july 1943 - name: carlo wolff - image: carlowolff020.jpg - birth place: dallas , texas , united states - occupation: journalist , critic , pop-culture historian , speaker Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of carlo wolff .
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carlo wolff is a prolific freelance journalist who writes for publications including '' the boston globe '' , '' chicago sun-times '' , '' pittsburgh post-gazette '' , '' the plain dealer '' -lrb- cleveland , ohio -rrb- and '' the christian science monitor '' .he specializes in music criticism , book reviews and feature articles about popular culture , travel , and business .he also specializes in reviewing graphic novels for the globe .included among his former outlets : '' goldmine '' and '' billboard '' .from february 1990 to august 2008 , wolff worked for '' lodging hospitality '' , a penton media trade publication targeting the hotel industry .during his last eight years with lh , he was features editor .he now freelances to that publication and other trade periodicals .wolff also maintains a blog .wolff has been involved in three books , including '' the encyclopedia of record producers '' , a 1999 billboard publication instigated by eric olsen , founder of www.blogcritics.com , a critical portal to which wolff occasionally contributes .wolff 's most recent book , '' cleveland rock and roll memories '' , was published in november 2006 by gray and company , publishers .in 2003 , wolff made critical waves with his take on mitch albom 's '' the five people you meet in heaven . ''commissioned by the '' detroit free press '' , where albom is a star columnist , it was suppressed by that newspaper and subsequently published in the '' fort lauderdale sun-sentinel '' and numerous other mainstream and alternative newspapers .wolff 's albom review is reprinted in '' killed , '' a compilation of censored journalism , put together by david wallis , the man behind featurewell , a journalism portal to which wolff also occasionally contributes .the review also is archived at poynteronline , an interpretive journalism portal .in addition to his literary criticism , wolff has chronicled and interpreted jazz for decades , including a long stint as the key jazz critic for '' the plain dealer '' .he is also...