High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Barbara Leonard Reynolds (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 12, 1915 – February 11, 1990), was an American author who became a Quaker, peace activist and educator. In 1951, Barbara and her family moved to Hiroshima with her husband, Dr. Earle L. Reynolds, who was assigned by the American government to conduct a three-year study on the effects of radiation on children who had survived the first atomic bomb (1951–54).