"Schumacher produced such varied biographies as Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life; Crossroads: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton; and Dharma Lion: A Biography of Allen Ginsberg a prominent beat generation poet and writer. Other biographies included Mr Basketball: George Mikan, the Minneapolis Lakers & the Birth of the NBA and Will Eisner: A Dreamer's Life in Comics. Eisner was one of the earliest cartoonists to work in US comic books and was a pioneer of the graphic-novel concept."
"He gravitated toward writing at a young age, she said, and basically built two writing careers one focused on biographies and another on Great Lakes lore. Living on the shores of Lake Michigan in Kenosha, Schumacher produced accounts of how the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a storm on Lake Superior in 1975; a November 1913 storm that claimed the lives of more than 250 Great Lakes sailors;"
"Michael Schumacher, a Wisconsin author who produced a diverse array of works ranging from biographies of film-maker Francis Ford Coppola and musician Eric Clapton to accounts of Great Lakes shipwrecks, has died. He was 75. Schumacher's daughter, Emily Joy Schumacher, confirmed Monday that her father died on 29 December. She did not provide the cause of death. Schumacher produced such varied biographies as Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life; Crossroads: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton;"
Michael Schumacher, 75, lived most of his life in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and died on December 29. He produced biographies of figures including Francis Ford Coppola, Eric Clapton, Allen Ginsberg, George Mikan and Will Eisner, and chronicled Great Lakes maritime disasters. His Great Lakes accounts covered the 1975 Edmund Fitzgerald sinking, the deadly November 1913 storm, and a 1958 Lake Michigan survival incident. He studied political science at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside but left one credit short of graduating. His daughter Emily Joy Schumacher said he worked longhand in flip notebooks, later transcribing on a typewriter, and remembered the sound of the keys.
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