Leonard Roy Frank (born July 15, 1932) is an American human rights activist, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) survivor and writer from New York. Since 1959 he has lived in San Francisco, where he managed an art gallery before he began collecting great quotations. Leonard was a graduate of the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania. He then served in the US Army and later, sold real estate. In 1962 in San Francisco Leonard was committed to a psychiatric hospital for being “paranoid schizophrenic” and given insulin shock treatments and dozens of ECT treatments. By 1972 Leonard was staff at Madness Network News and in December 1973 he and Wade Hudson founded Network Against Psychiatric Assault (NAPA), a patients' advocacy group. A published author, Leonard has compiled numerous books of great quotes and passages, as well as writing about his own experiences.