Is Michael Schumacher dead or alive? Here's confusion between acclaimed author and legendary Formula 1 driver

Is Michael Schumacher dead? Social media platforms are abuzz with the news of Schumacher's death, and there is an utter confusion over the development. So has really German Formula One great Michael Schumacher? The answer is no. The Ferrari legend is alive. Michael Schumacher, a Wisconsin author who produced a diverse array of works ranging from biographies of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola and musician Eric Clapton to accounts of Great Lakes shipwrecks, has died. He was 75.

Who is author Michael Schumacher?

Michael Schumacher produced such varied biographies as “Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker’s Life;” “Crossroads: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton;” and “Dharma Lion: A Biography of Allen Ginsberg” — a prominent Beat Generation poet and writer.


Other biographies included “Mr. Basketball: George Mikan, the Minneapolis Lakers & the Birth of the NBA” and ”Will Eisner: A Dreamer’s Life in Comics.” Eisner was one of the earliest cartoonists to work in American comic books and was a pioneer of the graphic novel concept.

Though he was born in Kansas, Schumacher lived most of his live in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He studied political science at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside but left the school just one credit short of graduating, his daughter said. He gravitated toward writing at a young age, she said, and basically built two writing careers — one focused on biographies and another on Great Lakes lore.

Living on the shores of Lake Michigan in Kenosha, Schumacher produced accounts of how the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a storm on Lake Superior in 1975; a November 1913 storm that claimed the lives of more than 250 Great Lakes sailors; and how four sailors fought to survive on Lake Michigan after their ship sank in a storm in 1958.

How is Formula 1 legend Michael Schumacher?


Legendary seven-time Formula 1 world champion Michael Schumacher suffered near-fatal skiing accident in 2013 and the former motorsport driver's family has maintained strict privacy in the public life.



Recently, Michael Schumacher's daughter Gina Schumacher posted an adorable throwback photo on the social media. Gina Schumacher wrote caption that reads - "the best forever".