Wild Rivers, Wildfires and Disappearing Wives

Ryan Sullivan

Board member

Steve Baumgartner

Steve Baumgartner retired from a 30-year career in international business and his family moved to Traverse City in 2014.  During his pre-retirement career, Steve worked as CEO, president, or executive vice president in four multinational corporations: printing/publishing (RR Donnely & Sons),  Health Care (Baxter and New Practices), pharmaceuticals (Rhone-Poulenc Rorer), and telecommunications (Telegroup).  Upon retirement, […]

National Writers Series Welcomes Author Steve Luxenberg

Author Next Door: Peter Damm

by Erin Evans One morning, Peter Damm was taken by his mother to get his tooth pulled— already a dreadful enough ordeal, especially considering the dentist’s tendency to treat pain like a mildly annoying fly on the wall. Worse, his mother surprised him with a visit to the doctor to get a polio shot the […]

Clark Bunting

Clark Bunting spent 30 years working in media and television production. Over his 26-year career at Discovery Communications, he served as President and General Manager of Discovery Channel, founding President and General Manager of Animal Planet, and President of Discovery Studios. At Discovery Networks, he launched critically acclaimed series, including Shark Week, Deadliest Catch, Mythbusters, […]

National Writers Series Kicking Off 10th Season in Traverse City with Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

Who’s America is This?

Author Next Door: Molly Greeley

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] Molly Greeley first read Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice when she was 10. She’s re-read it multiple times since — and has now written her own Jane Austen-inspired novel, The Clergyman’s Wife. In The Clergyman’s Wife, Charlotte Collins, née Lucas, is the respectable wife of Hunsford’s vicar, and sees to her duties […]

Anne Stanton: National Writers Series turns 10