Frank Rinder

Joseph Francis Rinder, who wrote as Frank Rinder, was a Scottish-born art critic and writer who lived and worked in London. Sources on his life consistently describe him as the art critic of the Glasgow Herald, and also as a writer on and collector of early 20th-century prints.

He was active in the British art world beyond journalism. Records from the Royal Academy and the Contemporary Art Society note his interest in printmaking and his authorship of catalogues on the artist David Young Cameron, suggesting a career shaped by close attention to visual culture as well as books.

For audiobook listeners, he is likely best known as the author of Old-World Japan: Legends of the Land of the Gods, a lively retelling and interpretation of Japanese myth and early tradition. Some online records disagree about his exact birth and death years, so those dates are best treated with caution.