Richard Harris Leigh (16 August 1943 – 21 November 2007) was a novelist and short story writer born in New Jersey, USA to a British father and an American mother, who spent most of his life in the UK. Leigh earned a BA from Tufts University, a Master's degree from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Leigh met his frequent co-author Michael Baigent while living in the United Kingdom in the 1...
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Richard Harris Leigh (16 August 1943 – 21 November 2007) was a novelist and short story writer born in New Jersey, USA to a British father and an American mother, who spent most of his life in the UK. Leigh earned a BA from Tufts University, a Master's degree from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Leigh met his frequent co-author Michael Baigent while living in the United Kingdom in the 1970s. Leigh introduced Baigent to the alleged Rennes-le-Chateau mystery in France. In the same decade he met British television scriptwriter Henry Lincoln who was lecturing at a summer school. The three discovered that they shared a common interest in the Knights Templar, and took their Jesus bloodline theory on the road. The three developed this lecture series into their 1982 book, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.
The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail popularised the idea that the true object of the quest for the Holy Grail was to find secret...
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