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Known for. founder of modern Barnes & Noble bookstores (1971) Parent. Steve Riggio (father) [3] Barnes & Noble's former flagship store at 105 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York operated from 1932–2014. Leonard S. Riggio (born February 28, 1941) [1] is a retired American businessman and entrepreneur.
- 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.
For the last two decades, Riggio and his wife, Louise, have amassed an impressive postwar and contemporary collection, works from which are installed at their house in Bridgehampton, New York.
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.
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...
Leonard Riggio has two daughters from his first marriage and another with his second wife, Louise, whom he married in the early 1980s. They reside in an expansive apartment on Park Avenue in Manhattan, New York and also have an estate in Bridgehampton, New York .
Birthplace: New York. Race: White. Gender: Male. Father: Laborer, Un-/Semi-skilled. View All Entries. Initiatives focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or industry to solve alone.
