Bio
Geoff Schumacher is an author, columnist, speaker and newspaper executive in Ames, Iowa.
He is the author of Howard Hughes: Power, Paranoia & Palace Intrigue, published in February 2008, and Sun, Sin & Suburbia: An Essential History of Modern Las Vegas, published in October 2004. Both books were published by Stephens Press.
Schumacher was a reporter, editorial writer and city editor for the Las Vegas Sun for 10 years and editor of Las Vegas CityLife for three years. He founded and edited the Las Vegas Mercury, which ceased publishing after a four-year run. He was the director of community publications for the Las Vegas Review-Journal for 10 years, overseeing editorial operations of numerous weekly newspapers and special sections. He also wrote a weekly public affairs column for the Review-Journal for five years and was the founding editor of CityLife Books, an imprint of Stephens Press.
Today, Schumacher is the publisher of the Ames (Iowa) Tribune and also oversees newspapers in Boone, Adel, Nevada and Algona, Iowa.
Schumacher was born in Madison, Wisconsin, grew up in Southern Nevada and earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Nevada, Reno, in 1988. He is married and has two daughters.
