Scott Gummer
Scott Gummer is an American writer and editor who lives in the Northern California wine country.
His book Parents Behaving Badly: A Novel was published by Touchstone Books in 2011.
Biography
Gummer was born in Sonoma County, California. He held a series of odd after school and summer jobs including boathouse attendant, suit store clerk, airplane washer, carpet store janitor, winery gardener, and truck brake assembler. Gummer attended Santa Rosa High School then the University of Oregon.
He met his wife, Lisa, in the dorms during their first week at Oregon. The couple married in 1988 and have four children.
Career
Upon graduating from Oregon with a degree in journalism and an emphasis on advertising, Gummer moved to New York City to work on Madison Avenue. But after 18 months spent toiling in the traffic department at the Foote Cone & Belding ad agency, Gummer switched to magazine editorial, starting out as a fact-checker at GQ and later moving to LIFE, where he would write and produce photo essays with photographers including Harry Benson, Galen Rowell, Robb Kendrick, Bob Sacha, Theo Westenberger, Co Rentmeester, Taro Yamasaki, and others.
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