He Usually Lived with a Female
Subtitle: The Life of a California Newspaperman
Publisher: Quail Creek Press
Published: March 15, 2006
Place of publication: Los Angeles, California
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 570
ISBN-13: 9780963483010
Subjects: Historical - U.S.; California; Garrigues, Charles Harris; Journalists, American; Biography & Autobiography / Editors, Journalists, Publishers; Regional Subjects - West
First sentence: 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.
Description: 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.)