Leon Wolff

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information. Leon Wolff was born and raised in Chicago, the son of Abe Wolff, a traveling salesman, and Bessie Billow, a Russian emigrant. He graduated from Northwestern University, then served as a second lieutenant in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. After the war he started a correspondence school, the Lincoln School of Practical Nursing, in Chicago. In 1953, he and his family moved to Los Angeles, where he transplanted the business and cultivated his interests in golf and jazz. Wolff wrote four books over the next dozen years. Low Level Mission (1957) described World War II's Operation Tidal Wave against the Ploești oil fields in Romania, by the US Army Air Force. In Flanders Field: The 1917 Campaign (1958), an account of the World War I offensive in 1917, otherwise known as the Third Battle of Ypres, or Passchendaele. Wolff also wrote the Francis Parkman Prize-winning book Little Brown Brother (1961), then wrote a final book, Lockout: The Story of the Homestead Strike of 1892 (1965), about the eponymous steel strike at Homestead, Pennsylvania. He died in Los Angeles in 1991.