Samuel A. Schreiner Jr.

Samuel Agnew Schreiner Jr. (June 6, 1921 – January 14, 2018)[1] was an American writer.

Lebanon, a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Schreiner graduated from Princeton University in 1942.

During World War II he served in the U.S. Army Office of Strategic Services as a cryptographer from 1942 to 1945.

He served in the China-Burma-India theater and became a first lieutenant, receiving both a Bronze Star and Presidential Unit Citation.

Schreiner began his career as a reporter for the McKeesport Daily News and the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph from 1946 to 1951.

Schreiner's debut novel, Thine Is the Glory , published in 1975