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Michael Frome is well known as author, educator and tireless champion of America’s natural heritage. Born in New York City, Michael served as a World War II navigator, flying to distant corners of the world. He began his writing career as a newspaper reporter for the Washington Post and later served as a successful travel writer before concentrating on the environment and the out-of-doors.
Over the years he has been a featured columnist in Field & Stream, Los Angeles Times, American Forests and Defenders of Wildlife. He has written twenty books, including his latest, Heal the Earth, Heal the Soul: Collected Essays on Wilderness, Politics and the Media, scheduled for publication in May 2007. These essays of critical observations written over a period of fifty years merge preservation with Frome’s concern for social justice, human dignity and the American spirit. His other books include GreenSpeak, Green Ink, Battle for the Wilderness, Regreening the National Parks, Chronicling the West, Conscience of a Conservationist and Strangers in High Places.
After years as a journalist, he began a new career in higher education, teaching at the universities of Idaho and Vermont, Northland College and Western Washington University. He earned a doctorate in 1993 from the Union Institute (which in 1999 named him Outstanding Alumnus of the Year). He retired in 1995 from the faculty of Western Washington University, at Bellingham, Washington, where he directed a pioneering program in environmental journalism and writing. The University of Idaho established in his honor the Michael Frome Scholarship for Excellence in Conservation Writing. The late Senator Gaylord Nelson, of Wisconsin, father of Earth Day, said of him: "No writer in America has more persistently argued for the need of a national ethic of environmental stewardship than Michael Frome."
He now lives at Port Washington, Wisconsin, with his wife, June Eastvold, a poet and retired Lutheran pastor.
The EcoRes Forum is proud to welcome Dr. Michael Frome to the April 2007
E-Conference and wishes to recognize his long-standing commitment to and achievements in the field of environmental conservation.
*Special thanks to Dr. Frome for permission to reprint the above biographical sketch.
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