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James Hugh Richardson
1894–1963
A hard-driving newspaper man who turned city-room experience into lively books, he spent decades covering and editing some of Los Angeles's biggest stories. His writing carries the pace of a reporter who knew the beat from the inside.
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Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles
by James Hugh Richardson
About the author
Born in Manitoba in 1894, James Hugh Richardson began in journalism young, working for the Winnipeg Telegram before moving to California in 1913. He built his career in Los Angeles newspapers, including the Los Angeles Evening Herald, the Post-Record, and the Los Angeles Examiner, where he became known as a skilled reporter and city editor.
Richardson covered many of the high-profile crime and court stories that shaped Los Angeles journalism in the 1920s and after. Alongside his newspaper work, he wrote books including Spring Street, a story of Los Angeles, and For the Life of Me, a memoir reflecting on life in the newsroom.
He died in 1963. Today, he stands out as a writer whose work preserves the voice, energy, and pressures of big-city reporting in an earlier era.