Leonard Riggio, who forged a bookselling empire at Barnes & Noble, dead at 83
Leonard S. Riggio, founder of Barnes & Noble Rob Kim | Getty Images Leonard Riggio, a brash, self-styled underdog who transformed the publishing industry by building Barnes & Noble into the country’s most powerful bookseller before his company was overtaken by the rise of Amazon.com, has died at age 83. Riggio died …