He Usually Lived with a Female
The Life of a California Newspaperman
by George Garrigues
In 1925, a young Arizona reporter, virtually fresh off the farm, wrote a love letter to a sophisticated Jewish New Yorker he had met at a dinner-dance. It was the first of scores of letters they would exchange over the next four decades. She, Fanny (Toni) Strassman, became his literary agent. He, Charles Harris (Brick) Garrigues, went on to become a graft-busting investigator in Los Angeles, a jazz reviewer in San Francisco, a husband and father, a target of Red-hunters, — and a man haunted by a secret from his high-school past. (From the back cover.)
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He Usually Lived with a Female: The Life of a California Newspaperman
March 15, 2006, Quail Creek Press
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"I held a mystery in my hand: two sheets of aged paper, browned by the passage of some seventy years, bits and pieces flaking off in my fingers, scattering on the carpet."
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A biography of Charles H. (Brick) Garrigues, using his letters and an unpublished semiautobiographical novel as a framework. He was a Los Angeles, California, newspaperman in the 1920s, a Los Angeles County grand jury investigator in the 1930s and a jazz reviewer for the San Francisco Examiner in the 1950s.
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