Geoff Schumacher
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Geoff Schumacher

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Geoff Schumacher is an author, editor and newspaper executive in Ames, Iowa. He is the author of "Howard Hughes: Power, Paranoia & Palace Intrigue," published in 2008, and "Sun, Sin & Suburbia: An Essential History of Modern Las Vegas," published in 2004. Both books were published by Stephens Press. A revised and expanded edition of "Sun, Sin & Suburbia" was published in October 2012. 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 Stephens Media, overseeing editorial operations of numerous weekly newspapers and special sections, for seven years. Schumacher also wrote a weekly public affairs column for the Las Vegas 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 several other newspapers in central 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 children.
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