“The difference between the almost right word and the right word. . . is the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.”

Published Books

Boxes from the Attic — An Immigrant’s Story, by Miriam Kurtzig Freedman, 2024, Palo Alto, CA

NOT-FOR-PROFIT: The Serendipitous Business Journeys that Spawned a Philanthropic Icon, by Tad Taube, 2021, Lontano Press, Denver, CO

How Architecture Tells: 9 Realities that will Change the Way You See, by Robert Tabin Steinberg, FAIA, 2021, ORO Editions, Novato, CA

A Place in the Sun, A Memoir, by Donald Kennedy, 2017, The Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, CA

From Generation to Generation, by Lottie and Henry Burger with Susan Wolfe, 2016, Booklocker.com, Bradenton, FL

Lishma: For His Name’s Sake: The Life and Times of Rabbi Sidney Akselrad, An Oral History, by Rabbi Sidney Akselrad, 2005, iUniverse, Inc., Lincoln, NE

Remembering, by John R. Schwabacher with Susan Wolfe, 2003, iUniverse, Inc., Lincoln, NE

From the Ground Up: Building Silicon Valley, by Goodwin Steinberg, FAIA with Susan Wolfe, 2002, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA 

The Promised Hand, by Susan Wolfe, 2000, Writer’s Club Press, Lincoln, NE

You Can Get There from Here: The Road to Downsizing in Higher Education, by Barbara S. Butterfield and Susan Wolfe, 1994, College and University Press Association

And Don’t Forget When You Leave Why You Came: A Look at the Inaugural Goals of Stanford’s Eighth President by Susan Wolfe, 1992, Stanford Historical Society

In the Works

Can Do! (working title) By Richard G. Wolford with Susan Wolfe

Journalism

In addition, Susan has published in newspapers the world over through her work as a staff writer with United Press International, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Jose Mercury News, and as a contributor to Parents Magazine and Stanford Magazine. Her feature, “Who Killed Jane Stanford?” is the most read story in Stanford Magazine history.