Neil Reynolds dropped out of high school to work for a newspaper, and over a long career became one of the great editors of newspapers in Canada. He was editor of the Kingston Whig-Standard, the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal, and Saint John Times-Globe, the Ottawa Citizen, and the Vancouver Sun. He was an inspiring and courageous leader in a newsroom. I know this to be true because I worked in some of his newsrooms, where he told us that we were producing the literature of the people. At the end of his career, he shared his time between Ottawa and New Brunswick, as editor-at-large for Brunswick News Inc. and writing a column for the Globe and Mail. We cornered him for this talk during an east coast leg of his travels. Reynolds died on May 19, 2013.