CHARLES A. COULOMBE

Born in New York City on 8 November 1960, Charles A. Coulombe moved with his parents to Hollywood, California at age 6. A product of L.A.'s parochial schools, he attended college at New Mexico Military Institute and California State University Northridge, majoring in Political Science.

After spending three years as a stand-up comic on the Sunset Strip, Mr. Coulombe authored his first book, Everyman Today Call Rome, a look at the Catholic Church in America from an under-30 viewpoint. To date, the book has sold well in this country, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. In 1990, some of his poetry was published in The White Cockade. Coulombe's work has appeared in over a score of journals, including regular columns in Fidelity of Australia, PRAG of London, Monarchy Canada, and Creole of Louisiana; a contributing editor and regular movie reviewer to The National Catholic Register, he is also a frequent contributor to such publications as Success, Catholic Twin Circle, Gnosis, FATE and New Oxford Review.

Lecturing on a wide variety of religious, political, historical, and literary topics has taken him throughout the U.S. and Canada. He has completed in June 1992 a month-long lecture tour in Australia and New Zealand, and in August of that year spoke at Oxford University, England. In October 1993 he embarked on a lecture tour of Ireland, Scotland, and England. The following year he returned to the latter two nations, and in 1995 spoke at Oxford and Cambridge. Coulombe has lectured repeatedly at USC on the history of rock and roll, and at Cleveland's John Carroll University on Medieval monarchy.

Recently, he joined the staff of The New Triumph as film critic. He is West Coast Chairman of the London-based Monarchist League, and a member of both the Catholic Writer's Guild of Great Britain (the Keys) and the Royal Stuart Society. As a child, he lived with his parents in a house owned by Criswell, the T.V Psychic, through whom he met the now-famous film-maker, Edward D. Wood, Jr.