[1] Wolf studied psychology at the New School where he met Edwin Fancher, a future co-founder of the Village Voice, while waiting to register for classes.
Fancher and Mailer were also World War II veterans; the experience of seeing combat motivated the development of an 'alternative' newspaper with the goals of free thought and speech.
Wolf founded the Village Voice on October 26, 1955 with the novelist Norman Mailer and Edwin Fancher, a former truck driver who trained as a psychologist.
[7] They started the newspaper with $10,000 and no journalism experience, with Fancher as the publisher, Wolf as the editor-in-chief, and Mailer as a silent partner who supplied most of the capital, following the success of The Naked and the Dead.
[5] In 1970, Taurus Communications, Inc., co-owned by New York City Council member Carter Burden and Bartle Bull, bought controlling interest of the Voice from Wolf and Fancher.