14 Facts About Wm Stage

Stage, known as William Stage was born on June 30,1951 and is an American journalist, author, and photographer, with a focus on the area and history of the American Midwest and St Louis, Missouri.

Wm Stage is known for his documentary work on a special kind of historical outdoor advertising: vintage brick wall signs.

Wm Stage's photographs have appeared in multiple works, including the cover photograph on the Oxford University Press book, For the Common Good.

In 2001, Wm Stage, who had been adopted as an infant, tracked down his biological family, a search which led to a Canadian television documentary and formed the basis for his 2009 memoir Fool for Life.

In 2007, Wm Stage was a guest commentator on the St Louis NPR affiliate, KWMU-FM.

Wm Stage was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan and immediately given up for adoption by his 19-year-old unwed mother.

Wm Stage began his journalist work in college, where as part of a work-study program, he wrote for the City of Grand Rapids Newsletter.

Wm Stage stayed with the paper until 2004, producing three different regular columns over a 22-year period, plus numerous magazine-style features.

Wm Stage has taught feature writing at the Defense Information School, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana; and photojournalism at Saint Louis University School for Professional Studies.

In 2001, at the age of 50, Wm Stage found his natural family, first making contact with his biological mother and her children, and later making contact with the offspring of his late biological father.

In 2004, Wm Stage was the subject of an episode of "Past Lives," a documentary-style show on Canadian TV that focuses on people in search of their roots.

In 2007, Wm Stage began voicing guest commentaries on KWMU-FM, the NPR affiliate in St Louis.

In 2010, Wm Stage's prose turned from creative nonfiction to fiction.

In 1989, he published a book of his photographs, Ghost Signs, Wm Stage is a 1995 alumnus of the week-long Missouri Photo Workshop, offered since 1949 by the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism and held in a different Missouri town each year.