Robert L. Pisor was a journalist, historian and bread maker during his 77 years. He was born in Bellefontaine, Ohio, on Dec. 7, 1939, the first son of a U.S. Army artillery officer and an elementary school teacher. He majored in history at the College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio. He earned a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In 1963, he joined the Detroit News, then the largest afternoon daily in the U.S. He also served as the Detroit News' war correspondent in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968. He served three years as press secretary to Detroit Mayor Coleman A. Young, became editor of Monthly Detroit Magazine and moved to Detroit's WDIV-TV to offer newspaper criticism and political coverage for 11 years. His book on the Vietnam War, The End of the Line, won the Society of Midland Authors' prize for non-fiction. In 1995 he opened Stone House Bread,an artisanal sourdough bread bakery. He retired in 2006. Mr. Pisor passed away July 7, 2017 from Kidney Cancer.