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The Collected Memoirs of C. Willeford: I Was Looking for a Street & Something About a Soldier
The Collected Memoirs of C Willeford I Was Looking for a Street Something About a Soldier Author:Charles Wileford, Charles Willeford A former professional boxer, actor, horse trainer and radio announcer, Charles Willeford (1919-1988) is best known for his crime fiction featuring hardboiled detective Hoke Moseley. — I Was Looking for a Street: The story of the author's childhood and adolescence as an orphan in Depression-era America, as he moves from railroad yards... more » to hobo tent cities, to soup kitchens and deserts around Los Angeles and across the United States.
Something About a Soldier: Willeford joined the U.S. Army in 1935 at the age of 16. He spent time in the Philippines, in the air corps, and later at Fort Riley, in the cavalry. He recalls some of the less savory aspects of the Depression army. In the four years covered here, he fits in about as many sexual, alcoholic, and military adventures as a young man could reasonably hope to survive -- from Library Journal « less