Charles Fleming (author)
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Charles Fleming is an American author. In addition to writing multiple books on multiple subjects, fiction and non-fiction, he has also had a long career in print and TV journalism. As a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times{{cite news |title=Charles Fleming |url=https://www.latimes.com/la-bio-charles-fleming-staff.html | access-date=2019-02-06 |work=Los Angeles Times}} he was the automobile and motorcycle reviewer and editor of the paper's Hollywood business section, Company Town. He has written extensively as a freelancer, for publications as varied as Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, and TV Guide.{{cite web|url=http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=8851|title=Charles Fleming |website=Penguin Random House |access-date=2018-04-28}}{{cite web |title=Charles Fleming |url=https://creativemornings.com/talks/charles-fleming |website=Creative Mornings | access-date=2019-02-06 }}
Background
Prior to joining the Los Angeles Times Fleming was a staff writer for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Variety, and Newsweek and for many years served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Journalism.{{cite web |url=http://annenberg.usc.edu/Faculty/Journalism/Adjunct.aspx |title=Adjunct Faculty |publisher = University of Southern California |access-date=2009-12-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091126025837/http://annenberg.usc.edu/Faculty/Journalism/Adjunct.aspx |archive-date=2009-11-26 }}
Among his published works are the best-selling High Concept: Don Simpson and the Hollywood Culture of Excess, and My Lobotomy, co-authored with the subject, Howard Dully. Fleming is also author of the popular Los Angeles-based urban walking guides, Secret Stairs and Secret Walks, and their Bay Area counterpart, Secret Stairs East Bay.
Born in North Carolina, and raised in Pacific Palisades, California, he is an Eagle Scout.{{cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-fleming30-2009dec30,0,4659963.story|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100102065655/http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-fleming30-2009dec30,0,4659963.story|url-status=dead|archive-date=2010-01-02|title=At age 100, the Boy Scouts have some good deeds yet to do|first=Charles|last=Fleming|date=2009-12-30 |access-date=2018-04-28|work=LA Times}}
Published works
- {{cite book | title = Secret Walks: A Walking Guide to the Hidden Trails of Los Angeles | isbn = 9781595800824| last1 = Fleming| first1 = Charles| year = 2015}}
- {{cite book | title = Secret Stairs: A Walking Guide to the Historic Staircases of Los Angeles }}
- {{cite book | title = Secret Stairs East Bay: A Walking Guide to the Historic Staircases of Berkeley and Oakland }}
- {{cite book | title = The Studio Kill }}
- {{cite book | title = The Ivory Coast }}
- {{cite book | title = After Havana }}
- My Lobotomy{{cite book|last1=Fleming|first1=Howard Dully with Charles|title=My lobotomy|date=2007|publisher=Crown Publishers|location=New York|isbn=978-0-307-38126-2|pages=268–269|edition=1st}}
- {{cite book|title=High Concept: Don Simpson and the Hollywood Culture of Excess|publisher=Doubleday|date=1998|isbn=978-0-385-48694-1|url=https://archive.org/details/highconceptdonsi00flem_0}}
- {{cite book|title=Three Weeks in October: The Manhunt for the Serial Sniper| isbn = 978-0-525-94777-6 | url = https://archive.org/details/threeweeksinocto00moos}}
- {{cite book | title = A Goomba's Guide to Life }}
- {{cite book | title = The Goomba Diet }}
- {{cite book | title = Nicky Deuce: Welcome to the Family }}
- {{cite book | title = Nicky Deuce: Home for the Holidays }}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.charlesfleming.com}}
- {{cite web | url = http://www.linkedin.com/pub/charles-fleming/6/650/a31 | title = Charles Fleming |publisher = LinkedIn}}
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