Richard B Schwartz

Richard B. Schwartz was born in Cincinnati. He chronicled his adolescence there in his book, The Biggest City in America: A Fifties Boyhood in Ohio. His father was an attorney and, during the war, a Special Agent in the FBI. He attended the University of Notre Dame and the University of Illinois, where he did his graduate work in English and the History of Science. He served 2 years of active military duty at Fort Knox and as a Captain (Armor) teaching literature and philosophy at the United States Military Academy.