Samuel A. Schreiner

SAMUEL A. SCHREINER, JR. was an American journalist and the author of more than a dozen books, including The Concord Quartet, The Passionate Beechers and Henry Clay Frick: The Gospel of Greed.

Schreiner graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University in 1942. He worked as a reporter for the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, then as assistant managing editor at Parade magazine, and later as senior editor at Reader’s Digest.

During World War II, Schreiner served in the U.S. Army Office of Strategic Services as a cryptographer in the China-Burma-India theater. He was awarded the Bronze Star.

Schreiner was born in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, and lived in Darien, Connecticut, for over 60 years. He died there in 2018 at age 96.

Samuel A. Schreiner’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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