Mr. Dan Pinger

Dan Pinger has played many roles in his long and eventful life. He raises horses. He served in the U.S. Army. He was a notably indifferent law school student. Dan also spent some time in academia, working as an administrator at the University of Cincinnati. But it wasn’t until he turned 50 that he discovered his true calling, when he founded the Dan Pinger Public Relations agency. Dan Pinger and the hundreds of “Pingerites” who worked with him offered communications counsel to clients across Cincinnati, Ohio and the nation for more than 25 years. And of course, Dan has been a son, husband, father, grandfather and lover, living through all the joy and heartbreak those roles bring. Now, in his late 80s, Dan has begun scribbling some poems that deal with love, personal and business tribulations, and an 88-year-old man’s consideration of what comes next. He is the author of three compilations of poetry: Love, Laughter, Life and the Hereafter: Fifty-Nine Stories in Rhyme; The Ripley Ridge Storyteller; and The Ripley Ridge Raconteur. He published his first work of fiction, Black Smoke and Blind Men, in 2019. His most recent work, A Reporter's Memoir: When the Mob Ruled Newport, recalls his days as a newspaper reporter covering the wild and woolly days when the Mob ran Newport, Kentucky.