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He Usually Lived with a Female

A biography of Charles H. (Brick) Garrigues, using his letters and an unpublished semiautobiographical novel as a framework.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.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 570 pages

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