Quentin Reynolds

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Quentin Reynolds (1902 - 1965) was a journalist.

Reynolds averaged twenty articles a year for Collier’s and also published twenty-five books, including The Wounded Don’t Cry, London Diary, Dress Rehearsal, and Courtroom, a biography of lawyer Samuel S. Leibowitz. But after World War II Reynolds was best known for his libel suit against Hearst columnist Westbrook Pegler, who called him “yellow” and an “absentee war correspondent.” He won $175,001, at the time the largest libel judgment ever. The trial was later made into a Broadway play, A Case of Libel.

In 1953, Reynolds was the victim of a major literary hoax when he published The Man Who Wouldn’t Talk, the supposedly true story of a Canadian war hero who claimed to have been captured and tortured by German soldiers. When the hoax was exposed, Random House, Reynolds’s publisher, came up with an ingenious way of saving face—and profits. The company simply reclassified the book as a novel.

Source: http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Brown_Alumni_Magazine/01/11-00/features/literature.html

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