Charles Alan Reich (/raɪʃ/ RYSHE;[1] May 20, 1928 – June 15, 2019) was an American academic and writer best known for writing the 1970 book, The Greening of America, a paean to the counterculture of the 1960s.
Prior to his academic career he worked for six years as a lawyer at the white-shoe firms Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York[11] and Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C.[12][5] Reich was a professor at Yale Law School from 1960 to 1974.
[16] Reich left Yale in 1974 to move to San Francisco, although he continued as a visiting professor from 1974 to 1976.
[18] He came out during this early period of the modern LGBT rights movement and in his autobiography he details his activism and the process of coming to terms with his then long-repressed sexuality.
[12] Decades later Reich was less active in LGBT affairs and explicitly stated that his need to live alone "trumped" sexual orientation as meaningful in his life.