Upper Nyack's Daniel Wolff to Sign New Book

A longtime literary tradition will continue Monday, August 6 when Upper Nyack author Daniel Wolff signs copies of his newest book, Fight for Home: How (Parts of) New Orleans Came Back, at .

Wolff, who has penned popular tomes on Lincoln, Sam Cooke and the Memphis music scene, will meet with readers and residents between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.

"This is something I've done for all my other books," Wolff said, noting O'D's has been his go-to spot for about 25-years.

Fight for Home tackles a sensitive and sprawling topic—New Orleans natives, after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, working to regain their homes. But the non-fiction book had humble beginnings.

"About five months after Katrina, [director and Nyacker] Jonathan Demme and I went down to New Orleans," Wolff said. "Him with his camera, and me with my notebook."

"We thought it would be one visit, but after we met the people and saw the aftermath, we vowed to keep going down," Wolff continued.

Wolff ended up traveling to the ravaged region every two-to-three months over the course of five years, and Fight for Home is his chronicle of those visits and the people he met.

He and Demme also teamed up to produce a documentary, I'm Carolyn Parker: the Good, the Mad and the Beautiful, on the subject. The film hones in on New Orleans resident Carolyn Parker, who labors to return her life and home to normalcy post-tempest. Rivertown Films screened the documentary earlier this year, and PBS is slated to air it come September.

The signing was orchestrated with the help of Jack Dunnigan of ; Dunnigan has been working alongside Wolff for about thirty years.

"He always draws a good crowd," Dunnigan said.