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James Hugh Richardson
1894–1963
A hard-driving newspaper man turned memoirist and novelist, this Canadian-born writer spent decades in Los Angeles newsrooms and wrote with the energy of someone who had seen the city up close. His work captures the pace, pressure, and human drama of early twentieth-century journalism.
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Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles
by James Hugh Richardson
About the author
Born in Windsor, Ontario, on November 23, 1894, he began in newspapers at the Winnipeg Telegram in 1912 and moved to the Los Angeles Evening Herald the next year. Over the years he reported on major crime and court stories of the 1920s and went on to become a city editor and later a managing editor in Los Angeles.
He also wrote books drawn from that world, including For the Life of Me: Memoirs of a City Editor and the novel Spring Street: A Story of Los Angeles. His writing is closely tied to the newspaper culture he knew firsthand, giving it an insider's feel and a strong sense of place.
He died on September 30, 1963. Archival records and historical profiles remember him both as a veteran newspaperman and as an author who turned newsroom experience into lively storytelling.