Background
Richard Kindleberger was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1942, and raised in Lincoln, Massachusetts. His father, Charles P. Kindleberger, was an economist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an architect of the Marshall Plan.
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In 1960, Richard graduated from Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School.
Career
He developed an interest for languages and learned Russian, French, German, and Spanish. After graduating from Cornell University in 1967, he worked as a reporter at the Worcester Evening Gazette for almost 3 years. Kindleberger later received a master’s degree in Russian literature.
Kindleberger was hired by the Boston Globe, where he began working as an environmental reporter and a copy editor beginning in 1972.
He joined a spotlight team and helped investigate reports on abuse in the Massachusetts civil service system and the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. After spending at least thirty years as a reporter and editor, Kindleberger died from a brain tumor on January 1, 2010 at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the age of 67.
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