Biography
Richard Cleaver was an Iowa writer, Catholic Worker activist, and theologian. A 1975 graduate of Grinnell College, he later wrote New Heaven, New Earth about the Catholic Worker program and Know My Name, which approached gay liberation through liberation theology. Cleaver was arrested after returning to Offutt Air Force Base during the Nagasaki Day peace action on August 9, 1982 despite an earlier barring letter. He was sentenced to probation on December 14, 1982; no prison term was imposed.
