Michael Frome, former WWU professor and nationally known environment writer, dies at 96

Michael Frome, a nationally known writer who taught environmental journalism at several colleges, including Western Washington University for eight years, died Sunday, Sept. 4. He was 96.

Frome died in Wisconsin, where he moved after retiring from Western in 1995. Frome wrote about conservation, environmentalism and the outdoors with the journalistic standards of a reporter and the passion of an advocate.