Wisconsin<\/a> 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.<\/p>\nSchumacher\u2019s daughter, Emily Joy Schumacher, confirmed Monday that her father died on 29 December. She did not provide the cause of death.<\/p>\n
Schumacher produced such varied biographies as Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker\u2019s Life; Crossroads: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton; and Dharma Lion: A Biography of Allen Ginsberg \u2013 a prominent beat generation poet and writer.<\/p>\n
Other biographies included Mr Basketball: George Mikan, the Minneapolis Lakers & the Birth of the NBA and Will Eisner: A Dreamer\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
Though he was born in Kansas, Schumacher lived most of his live in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He studied political science at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, but left the school just one credit short of graduating, his daughter said. He gravitated toward writing at a young age, she said, and basically built two writing careers \u2013 one focused on biographies and another on Great Lakes lore.<\/p>\n
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; and how four sailors fought to survive on Lake Michigan after their ship sank in a storm in 1958.<\/p>\n
Emily Joy Schumacher described her father as \u201ca history person\u201d and \u201ca good human\u201d. She said he worked longhand, filling countless flip notebooks and later transcribing them on a typewriter. She said she still remembers the sound of the keys clacking.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy dad was a very generous person with people,\u201d Emily Joy Schumacher said. \u201cHe loved people. He loved talking to people. He loved listening to people. He loved stories. When I think of my dad, I think of him engaged in conversation, coffee in his hand and his notebook.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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