Dick ShumakerAuthor

A MEMOIR BY DICK CLARK SHUMAKER

Mom Called Me
Dickie Bird

A warm and honest memoir of family, determination, hardship, and a life that kept moving forward.

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“You have a brain. Use it.”

— His mother’s advice that lasted a lifetime

BOOKS BY DICK SHUMAKER

Ten books. A lifetime of questions.

Memoir, family, business, race, faith, money, survival, and the questions that never stopped coming. Explore a book to learn more.

Memoirs, family & lifeMoney & bankingSociety & ideas
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Thank God for the Mob

What happens when running a business brings you into contact with people and pressures beyond the ordinary? In Thank God for the Mob: The Holiday House Story, Richard Shumaker recounts his experience of a place where entertainment, business dealings, and underworld connections met.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

A life remembered through the people and moments that mattered.

Some lives are remembered through famous events. Others are remembered through family stories, small moments, difficult choices, and the people who never leave us.

Mom Called Me Dickie Bird is Dick Clark Shumaker’s personal account of more than eight decades of living, learning, creating, losing, and beginning again. It holds memories of childhood, his brother Davie, his parents and grandparents, his wife Lil, his children, his business experiences, and the lessons gathered along the way.

AI & ACA

ACA and the End of the World

What Happened When I Asked Artificial Intelligence to Follow My Algorithm to Its Final Conclusion?

A separate work about the Asset Creation Algorithm, artificial intelligence, and what happens when an idea is followed all the way to its most extreme conclusion.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Still creating. Still beginning again.

Dick Clark Shumaker grew up in Wilmerding, Pennsylvania, a small town shaped by George Westinghouse and the Westinghouse Air Brake Company. Now 84 years old and living in Lake County, Florida, Dick looks back on a remarkable life of family, business, determination, invention, success, hardship, and starting over.

At the heart of his story is his mother—a pianist, organist, and teacher—whose simple advice remained with him throughout his life: “You have a brain. Use it.”

READERS, BOOK GROUPS & EDITORS

Contact author Richard Shumaker.

Interested in a book, an author feature, or a conversation about family, resilience, and a life spent creating? Richard welcomes inquiries by email from readers, book groups, reviewers, and publications.

Please include the book or subject that interests you and, for a feature inquiry, your publication and intended audience.

Email Richard: rs7717@comcast.net

A STORY WORTH SHARING

Come meet Dickie Bird.

Read a personal story about family, resilience, memory, and continuing to create—regardless of age or circumstance.

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