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Leonard S. Riggio (born February 28, 1941) [1] is a retired American businessman and entrepreneur. He served as executive chairman of book store chain Barnes & Noble and was its largest shareholder from 1971 [4] until the sale of the company to the hedge fund Elliott Advisors in 2019. [5] [6] Under his leadership the company expanded ...
- founder of modern Barnes & Noble bookstores (1971)
- February 28, 1941 (age 82), New York City, United States
- Steve Riggio (father)
- former Executive Chairman, Barnes & Noble
Since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Mr. Riggio has built homes for families who lost their homes in New Orleans. He and his wife gifted more than 100 homes to displaced families through a not-for-profit he created called Project Home Again. Mr. Riggio also devotes much of his time to public education. He led the nation’s first-ever private ...
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A native New Yorker, Leonard Riggio founded the Barnes & Noble booksellers chain, and has been a major patron of the Dia Art Foundation, with millions given to the development and opening of the ...
May 7, 2016 · As Founder and Chairman of Barnes & Noble, Leonard Riggio steered it through the proliferation of free information in the Internet age. As he retires, he tells NPR's Lynn Neary about his long career.
In 1971, bookseller Leonard Riggio acquired the Barnes & Noble trade name and flagship bookstore in Manhattan, merging it with his own thriving bookselling business. Within a few years, he had grown the Barnes & Noble Fifth Avenue store in New York City into "The World’s Largest Bookstore," with 150,000 textbook and trade titles.
Riggio is an avid art and wine collector and also likes to golf. His favorite work of fiction is The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. Riggio was born February 28, 1941 in the Little Italy section of Manhattan. At age four he moved to the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn, where his home housed an extended family of aunts, uncles, and grandparents.
Apr 27, 2016 · When Leonard Riggio bought Barnes & Noble in 1971, it consisted of a single struggling store in Manhattan. Over time, with swagger and an unwavering belief in the value of physical bookstores, he ...
