Andrew Kantar is Professor of English and Director of the Writing Center at Ferris State University. His first book, "29 Missing: The True and Tragic Story of the Disappearance of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, " was designated a Michigan Notable Book. He has also written "Black November", a history of the "Carl D. Bradley", the largest ship to break up and vanish during a raging storm on Lake Michigan. Kantar served as a Fulbright Scholar in Norway for two years.