Michael Leannah is a teacher in the Sheboygan (Wisconsin) public schools and a writer. His children’s fiction has appeared in magazines in the United States (see the May, 2011 edition of Highlights for Children) and Australia. His history of a Wisconsin department store chain is to be published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press in 2013.
Leannah’s interest in old-time radio led to the publication in 2007 of Well! Reflections on the Life and Career of Jack Benny, for which he served as editor and the writer of several chapters. His radio plays have won national awards and have been performed in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and elsewhere.