Charles Fleming

Charles Fleming is a veteran entertainment industry journalist and author of the acclaimed Hollywood biography High Concept: Don Simpson and the Hollywood Culture of Excess. He is the author of the noir West Coast series of novels -- The Ivory Coast, After Havana, The Studio Kill and North Beach Blue -- and co-author of the New York Times bestsellers My Lobotomy, Three Weeks in October, A Goomba's Guide the Life, and more. His beloved Secret Stairs walking books include Secret Stairs: A Walking Guide to the Historic Staircases of Los Angeles and Secret Stairs East Bay: A Walking Guide to the Historic Staircases of Berkeley and Oakland. Fleming is the entertainment industry business news editor at The Los Angeles Times, and teaches entertainment reporting at the University of Southern California.