Daughter of the Wisconsin author confirmed her father died on 29 December and did not provide cause of death
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; 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.
