Bill Schubart has lived with his family in Vermont since 1947. He writes about Vermont in fiction, humor and opinion pieces.

Bill Schubart is the author of several books:

The Lamoille Stories (ISBN 978-1-935052-10-4) White River Press – 2008

Fat People (ISBN 978-0-615-39751-1) Magic Hill Press LLC – 2010

Panhead (ISBN 978-0-9834852-6-1) Magic Hill Press LLC – 2012

I am Baybie (ISBN: 978-0-9834852-9-2) Magic Hill Press LLC – 2013

Photographic Memory (ISBN: 978-0-9834852-8-5) Magic Hill Press – 2013

The Lamoille Stories is a humorous collection of short stories of people from his childhood behaving badly. Fat People is a collection of stories about people wrestling with compulsive eating behaviors. Panhead is his first novel and is the story of a brother and sister growing up in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom on a hill farm. I am Baybie, a new novel to be released in March, is a first-person narrative of a blind street singer in New York City. Photographic Memory, also to be released in 2013 explores the relationship between photographs and reality, while telling the story of a young boy growing up in two distinctly different cultures and families and having ultimately to chose between the two.

He is also is a founder of Resolution, Inc., a fully integrated E-commerce services partner, offering web commerce design & integration, customer care, on-demand media manufacturing, fulfillment, distribution and information & revenue management to broadcasters, print & electronic publishers and direct marketers.

In 1973, he co-founded Philo Records, an independent record label that produces international artists in the folk and classical field and which is now part of the Rounder Group. He also founded the Pleiades Music Group, a music publishing company.

At the age of 26 Schubart was elected Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Vermont Arts Council, the State’s arts agency – the youngest trustee ever to serve as Chairman – and then served again at age 41. At 30, he joined the Board of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. In 1984, he became Chairman of the Vermont Folklife Center. At the request of then-Governor Madeleine Kunin, Schubart chaired the Vermont Statehood Bicentennial Commission, planning the celebration for Vermont’s 200th birthday in 1991.

Schubart has chaired the Arts Council’s Media Panel, Literature Panel and Visual Arts Panel and has served as a resource panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts. In addition, he has advised many non-profit and educational organizations on a variety of cultural and technical projects including the formation of Vermont Public Radio, on whose board he recently served as Chair. Additionally, he has taught courses at the University of Vermont in music, technology and business.

Schubart is a founder and past chairman of the American Video Duplication Association, has served on the Governor’s Telecommunications Task Force. He has been a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (the Grammy Awards) and The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) He is past Chair of the Vermont Business Roundtable where he also chaired the Telecommunications & Information Technology Task Force. He recently completed a three year term as Chair of Fletcher Allen Health Care, a 500-bed academic medical center.

Schubart was born in New York City in 1945. His father, who was serving as an officer in the Navy, died in the Philippines in World War II before his son was born. His widow moved with her newborn son to Vermont in 1947, where he was educated in Morrisville Public Schools, Phillips Exeter Academy, Kenyon College and the University of Vermont. Schubart’s great uncle was the renowned photographer and champion of impressionist art, Alfred Stieglitz. Schubart is fluent in French language and culture which he taught before entering communications as an entrepreneur. He writes and speaks extensively on the media and other civic issues and has written as well for Current. He has spoken at numerous industry and media events including Book Expo. Schubart is a regular commentator on Vermont Public Radio.

Schubart’s interests include poetry, photography, stone gardening, food preparation, classical and primitive music. He lives in Hinesburg, Vermont, with his wife Katherine, a writer. He has three sons, Bill, Peter and Steven and a daughter Anna, as well as a stepson Guy and a stepdaughter Phoebe.

Chairmanships:

Vermont College of Fine Arts (current)

Past Directorships:

VT Symphony Orchestra

VT Community Foundation

Civic Awards:

Recent Speaking Engagements:

Vertex Corporation, Co-wide Meeting (Corporate Culture)

Burlington Rotary (Tax Commission)

Elder Education (3- various)

2011 Hawthorne Society Guest speaker (democracy)

2011 VT “251″ Club keynote (Vermont)

Prior Speaking Engagements:

Publications:

The Lamoille Stories (ISBN 978-1-935052-10-4) White River Press – 2008

Fat People (ISBN 978-0-615-39751-1) Magic Hill Press LLC – 2010

Panhead (ISBN 978-0-9834852-6-1) Magic Hill Press LLC – 2012

I am Baybie (ISBN: 978-0-9834852-9-2) Magic Hill Press LLC – 2013

Photographic Memory (ISBN: 978-0-9834852-8-5) Magic Hill Press – 2013

Vermont Life – short story