You Should Have Been Here an Hour Ago
Easy-rolling autobiography of Phil Edwards, revered California power surfer of the '50s and '60s, coauthored by Sports Illustrated staff writer Bob Ottum, and published by Harper & Row in 1967. You Should Have Been Here an Hour Ago: The Stoked Side of Surfing, or How to Hang Ten Through Life and Stay Happy—surfing's first full-length biography—grew out of an SI cover story Ottum wrote on Edwards i...
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Writer Bob Ottum
"You Should Have Been Here an Hour Ago" book cover
Phil Edwards, Pipeline
Phil Edwards, from copyright page of "Hour Ago"
Young Phil Edwards, from "Hour Ago"
Phil Edwards, Oceanside. Photo: John Severson