Richard W. Crawford

Richard Crawford is the former Supervisor of Special Collections at the San Diego Public Library. He was also the Archives Director at the San Diego Historical Society, where he edited the Journal of San Diego History for nine years. Born in Long Beach, he has been a San Diegan since 1973. He has degrees in history (San Diego State University) and library science (San Jose State University). As a historian and archivist, he has written extensively on local history, including the books Stranger Than Fiction: Vignettes of San Diego History (1995), The Way We Were in San Diego (November 2011), and his latest book San Diego Yesterday (May 2013).