1. Michael W Punke was born on December 7,1964 and is an American author, attorney, academic, and policy analyst.
15 Facts About Michael Punke
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Michael Punke is a former Deputy United States Trade Representative and US Ambassador to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Michael Punke has a younger brother, Tim, and a sister, Amy.
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Michael Punke later attended and received his Juris Doctor degree from Cornell Law School, where he focused on trade law, and was elected to become editor-in-chief of the Cornell International Law Journal.
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From 2003 to 2009, Michael Punke consulted on public policy issues out of Missoula, Montana.
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In 2009, President Barack Obama selected Michael Punke to serve as the Deputy United States Trade Representative and US Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.
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In February 2017, Michael Punke joined Amazon Web Services as Vice President for Global Public Policy.
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Michael Punke came up with the idea to write the novel while on an airplane, after reading a couple of lines in a history book about real-life frontier fur trapper Hugh Glass.
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The book took a total of four years to complete and according to his brother Tim, Michael Punke actually caught pneumonia at least four times during the writing process.
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Michael Punke performed extensive research on Glass, which included setting up and testing real hunting traps.
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The book was published in 2002 to little fanfare, although Michael Punke was able to sell movie rights to it.
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In 2006, Michael Punke published a non-fiction book, via Hachette Books, that covered a mining disaster that occurred in North Butte, Montana during 1917.
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Michael Punke wrote the introduction to a contemporary reprint of Mari Sandoz's 1954 book, The Buffalo Hunters: The Story of the Hide Men.
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Michael Punke was the historical correspondent for Montana Quarterly magazine.
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Michael Punke appeared in the 2023 Ken Burns documentary The American Buffalo.