Quentin Reynolds Biography

Fast Facts

• Traveled with General George S․ Patton during the war and was one of the last foreign correspondents to leave Paris before the German Army moved in
• Started out as a sports reporter for the New York Evening World
• Spent 21 years as a reporter for Colliers magazine, starting in 1934 with his report on the rise of the Hitler youth movement
• Best known as a journalist and World War II war correspondent who reported on the London blitz and the Dieppe raid
• Published 25 books during his career, including "London Diary," "Dress Rehearsal," and "The Wounded Don't Cry," as well as an autobiography titled "By Quentin Reynolds․"
• When he asked his wife, Virginia Peine, if she would mind if he sued Westbrook Pegler for his libelous attacks, she is reported to have said "I'd have divorced you if you didn't․"
• Was part of a libel suit against Hearst columnist Westbrook Pegler after World War II, winning what was then the largest libel judgment in history for Pegler's comments calling him a coward and an "absentee war correspondent․"
• Was once described as the "light-heavyweight champion of the underdog․"