Patrick Reynolds

Co-author, the Gilded Leaf @Little, Brown And Company

Boston, MA, US

Patrick Reynolds and Tom Shachtman co-authored The Gilded Leaf, a bestselling biography about the RJ Reynolds tobacco family. First published in 1989 by Little, Brown, the book is currently in print and on Kindle. Mr. Reynolds is aiming to sell it to TV as a long-form series. The full title is The Gilded Leaf: Triumph, Tragedy, and Tobacco - Three Generations of the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Family. The Gilded Leaf is the riveting, dramatic saga of the R. J. Reynolds family, one of America’s richest and most private clans.R.J. was the founder of the company that became part of RJR Nabisco, which in 1988 was involved in the largest business takeover in history.Spanning three generations, the Reynolds’ story moves from the triumphs of founder and corporate genius R. J. to the dissipation, scandal, and tragedy that plagued his children and grandchildren.There is a redemptive close, with grandson Patrick Reynolds founding Tobaccofree World and becoming a leading anti-smoking advocate. The Gilded Leaf presents, for the first time, a complete account of the family who captured, spent and redeemed the American dream.“Fascinating…Illuminating…stunning detail.” Chicago Tribune“Fascinating insight into the evolution of a family over three generations that is simply a good read…panoramic sweep, bitter irony, and tragic touches.” Detroit Free Press“Readers of this captivating account may need to remind themselves that it is not fiction. There are colorful characters, a family rising from humble beginnings to attain fabulous wealth and power, scandal and tragedy wrought by excess—and an irony-laden finale.”Publishers Weekly “Fiction doesn’t get any better than this. It’s the kind of true-life story Hollywood scriptwriters dream about — murder, mayhem, messy divorces, titillating escapades of a tobacco dynasty, souls bared to the tabloids, racing through life in the fast lane…The Reynolds family makes TV’s ‘Dynasty’ look downright hokey.” The Washington Times

UCLA

Film/Cinema/Video Studies

Hotchkiss School

HIgh School, High School/Secondary Diploma Programs

University of Southern California

BS, Cinema

University of California, Berkeley

Undergraduate, English

UCLA

Undergraduate, Cinema