Richard Schwartz (3)

Richard Schwartz received a bachelor's degree in English literature from Temple University in 1973. In 1976, he joined the U.S. Forest Service to fight fires in the Sierra. It was during this time that he came across an ancient sixty-five foot stone circle near Truckee, which led to his first book, toon meer The Circle of Stones, a nonfiction archeological mystery. He has also written articles for the Alameda County Historical Society, the Berkeley Historical Society, the Truckee Historical Society, and the Bay Area Rock Art Research Association on this and other Native American and American historical topics. In 1996, he was at the Berkeley Historical Society when a stack of Berkeley newspapers circa 1900 was about to be discarded by the Society and he rescued the newspapers by taking them home. These rescued Berkeley Gazettes became the basis for the book Berkeley 1900. In 2005, he released Earthquake Exodus, 1906, which is the only book to focus on the refugees instead of the disaster of the San Francisco earthquake. In 2007, he released the book, Eccentrics, Heroes, and Cutthroats of Old Berkeley, which documents the lives of seventeen men and women who were famous in their day (1850-1925), but have been all but forgotten in our modern world. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder