Geoff Schumacher

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Geoff Schumacher (b. 1965-11-11) is a journalist and author who lives in Las Vegas, Nevada. Schumacher is the author of Sun, Sin & Suburbia: An Essential History of Modern Las Vegas.

Schumacher, who was born in Madison, Wisconsin, moved when he was 11 with his family to Las Vegas, and he has lived in Nevada ever since. He graduated from Pahrump Valley High School in 1984, and received his bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Nevada, Reno, in 1988.[1] He edited the student newspaper, Sagebrush, his senior year.[2]

After graduation, Schumacher returned to Las Vegas to report for the Las Vegas Sun, where he worked for 9 1/2 years, the last seven as city editor. Schumacher then worked for three years as managing editor of Las Vegas CityLife, an alternative newsweekly. In 2000, he went to work for Stephens Media, where he launched the now-defunct Las Vegas Mercury, an alt-weekly, which published for four years until it closed after Stephens Media bought rival CityLife. Schumacher has been writing a weekly column for the Review-Journal since January 2006.