Michael Schumacher is the award-winning author of ten books, including biographies of Allen Ginsberg (Dharma Lion), Phil Ochs (There But for Fortune), Francis Ford Coppola (Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker’s Life). Eric Clapton (Crossroads), George Mikan (Mr. Basketball) and most recently, Will Eisner (Will Eisner: A Dreamer’s Life in Comics).  He is also the author of two books about notable Great Lakes shipwrecks (Mighty Fitz: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and Wreck of the Carl D.: A True Story of Loss, Survival, and Rescue at Sea).  He is currently at work, with comics artist and publisher Denis Kitchen, on a biography of Li’l Abner comic strip creator Al Capp.