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Biographer of Coppola and Clapton was 75

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January 12, 2026

The prolific author also wrote histories about shipwrecks in the Great Lakes.

- BY TODD RICHMOND

Biographer of Coppola and Clapton was 75

EMILY JOY SCHUMACHER

WISCONSIN WRITER Schumacher wrote about the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald as well as an array of biographical subjects, including Allen Ginsberg and cartoonist Will Eisner.

Michael Schumacher, a Wisconsin author who produced a diverse array of works including biographies of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola and musician Eric Clapton as well as accounts of Great Lakes shipwrecks, has died. He was 75.

Schumacher's daughter, Emily Joy Schumacher, confirmed Monday that her father died on Dec. 29. She did not provide the cause of death.

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