Leonard Oswald Mosley OBE OStJ (11 February 1913 – June 1992)[1] was a British journalist, historian, biographer and novelist.
[3] At the age of seventeen he started work as a reporter for the Telegraph, a weekly paper, since defunct, which circulated in South Lancashire and North Cheshire.
After a year working there he lost his job as a result of an ill-timed practical joke, and then spent six months as a freelance, living in his parental home in Didsbury.
[6] In May 1932 he left the East Coast and drove to California in an old Ford Model T.[7] He arrived in Los Angeles just in time for the 1932 Summer Olympics, which he covered as an employee of United Press.
One early assignment which brought him back to the United States and made a great impression on him was the trial of Richard Hauptmann for the Lindbergh kidnapping.