Charles Fleming

Charles Fleming is co-author of the Fall 2007 autobiography My Lobotomy, author of the 1998 national bestseller High Concept: Don Simpson and the Hollywood Culture of Excess and co-author of the 2003 New York Times bestsellers Three Weeks In October: The Manhunt for the Serial Sniper and A Goomba's Guide To Life. He has reported on the entertainment industry, in print, on the Internet and on television and radio, since 1987. As staff writer and columnist for Newsweek, Variety, LA Weekly and The Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Fleming has written extensively on every aspect of the international entertainment and information fields -- from celebrity profiles to box office analysis to corporate exposes and the complex backlot maneuverings of Hollywood. As an Internet columnist, Fleming wrote the industry news column for Ifilm.com, and inaugurated the Deadline Hollywood column for the Mr. Showbiz entertainment website. As a television and radio reporter and columnist, Fleming covered Hollywood for TNT RoughCut and the National Public Radio affiliate KCRW. Fleming’s freelance magazine feature work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide, Playboy, Time, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, Spy, M Inc., US, Penthouse, McCalls, Los Angeles, California, The Los Angeles Daily News, The Atlanta Constitution-Journal and many other publications in the U.S., the U.K. and Japan.

Fleming is part of the adjunct faculty at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Journalism, where he teaches entertainment reporting, arts reporting and news writing.

His first novel, The Ivory Coast, was published by St. Martin’s Press in February, 2002. Its sequel, After Havana, was published in January, 2004. A third installment in this series, titled Hollywood Deadline, is forthcoming.

Fleming is also co-author, with Steven R. Schirripa, of the New York Times bestseller A Goomba’s Guide to Life, published by Clarkson Potter in September 2002, and its sequel, The Goomba Book of Love, published in October 2003. Look for The Goomba Diet: Living Large and Loving It, in May, 2006.

Fleming and Schirripa's young adult mystery novel Nicky Deuce: Welcome to the Family, was published to great acclaim in November 2005 and was followed in November 2006 by Nicky Deuce: Home for the Holidays.

When he isn't writing, Fleming reads, travels, plays tennis, rides motorcycles and cooks complicated meals with his wife and two daughters in the Silver Lake section of Los Angeles.