In a career spanning forty years, Greg Palmer has written for a variety of media, while also working as a radio station manager, talk show host, stevedore, news reporter, documentary and fiction film producer, and short order cook. Previous books include: Adventures in the Mainstream: Coming of Age with Down Syndrome (Woodbine House); Death: The Trip of a Lifetime (Harper Collins); The GI’s Rabbi: World War Two Letters of David Max Eichhorn (University Press of Kansas); and a novel for children, My Life So Far: Adventures of a Young Orangutan (CHMC).

Mr. Palmer’s international documentaries for PBS, as producer, writer, and sometimes host, include: Inside Passage; The Perilous Fight: America’s World War Two In Color; The Video Game Revolution; The Art of Magic; and Vaudeville: An American Masters Special, named by People Magazine as one of the ten best television programs of the year.

Mr. Palmer’s six plays for families have been produced around the world and include adaptations of Puss In Boots and Snow White; The Big Bad Wolf (And How He Got That Way); and The Falcon, part of the 1990 Goodwill Games Arts Festival. A film version of Falcon, directed by Mr. Palmer, was shot entirely on location in the Caucasus mountains of Georgia, and broadcast to an audience of more than 200 million viewers.

For 13 years Mr. Palmer was the Arts & Entertainment Editor of KING Television News. While at KING he also wrote and produced regional documentaries, including: Small Town Saturday Night; D-Day: The Last Wave; and The Royal Wedding. He is the winner of broadcasting’s highest honor, the Peabody Award, as well as commendations from Action for Children’s Television, the Ohio State Awards, and 13 Emmy awards.

A fifth generation Northwesterner, Mr. Palmer was born and raised on Mercer Island, and for forty years lived with his wife Cathy in Seattle. Mr. Palmer passed away in May 2009. Cheese Deluxe was his final book.