Richard Reinhardt (author)

Richard W. Reinhardt
Reinhardt in 2014
Born (1927-03-25) March 25, 1927 (age 97)
NationalityAmerican
EducationStanford University, BA 1949; Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, MS 1950.
Spouse(s)Joan Maxwell Reinhardt, b. 1927, m. 1951, d. 2009
Children3 sons

Richard Reinhardt (born March 25, 1927) is an American journalist, author, and historian whose books and articles have focused mainly on the American west, especially San Francisco and California. He also authored The Ashes of Smyrna, a novel set during the Greco-Turkish war following World War I. Reinhardt taught journalism at the University of California, Berkeley for two decades and has served on the boards of many civic and historic preservation organizations in the Bay Area.