Al Richmond was an American writer who co-founded and served as executive editor for the People's World San Francisco.
Richmond c. 1951
The cover of Richmond's Native Daughter: The Story of Anita Whitney (1942)
Richmond (center) at a dinner in his honor in Berkeley, California, March 7, 1970
"Mike Quin" was the pen name of the American Communist writer Paul Ryan, who also used a second pen name, "Robert Finnegan". He is best known for his posthumously published book The Big Strike about t
Al Richmond
…In his 1973 memoir A Long View From the Left, Richmond criticized the CPUSA. Dangerous Thoughts with Mike Quin (1940) A Long View From the Left (1973…
Scene from San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906, shortly after which Quin was born
Scene from the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike, about which Quin reported and later wrote a book