Richard L. Rashke (born 1936)[1] is an American journalist, teacher and author, who has written non-fiction books, as well as plays and screenplays.
He followed the widespread publicity about Karen Silkwood, her death, and the suit which her family brought against her former employer, Kerr-McGee.
Her life and activism, and suspicious death, became the subject of his book, The Killing of Karen Silkwood: The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case, published by Houghton-Mifflin in 1981.
It was adapted as a 1987 TV movie by the same name, starring actors Alan Arkin and Rutger Hauer.
[6] Drawn to compelling personal stories, Rashke has studied subjects including Bill Lear, an aviation engineer and inventor who did not get beyond seventh grade.