Bill Geist is the New York Times bestselling author of nine books, including CITY SLICKERS, LITTLE LEAGUE CONFIDENTIAL, THE BIG FIVE-OH, FORE! PLAY! and WAY OFF THE ROAD. Geist has won numerous Emmys and in 2011 was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for the 100s of “singular, informative, entertaining” pieces he has done since joining CBS in 1987. He was awarded the Bronze Star for his service as a combat photographer in Vietnam in 1969. In 2018 he retired from CBS having battled Parkinson’s disease for 25 years. Geist lives in Riverside, Connecticut, with his wife, Jody. They have two children, Willie and Libby, and four grandchildren.

Books by Bill Geist

Lake of the Ozarks: My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America

by Bill Geist - Memoir, Nonfiction

Before there was "tourism" and souvenir ashtrays became "kitsch," the Lake of the Ozarks was a Shangri-La for middle-class Midwestern families on vacation, complete with man-made beaches, Hillbilly Mini Golf and feathered rubber tomahawks. It was there that author Bill Geist spent summers in the ’60s during his school and college years working at Arrowhead Lodge --- a small resort owned by his bombastic uncle --- in all areas of the operation, from cesspool attendant to bellhop. In LAKE OF THE OZARKS, the Emmy Award-winning “CBS Sunday Morning” correspondent reflects on his coming of age in the American Heartland and traces his evolution as a man and a writer.