Author Walt Harrington, award-winning writer for the Washington Post Magazine, lifts the masks of celebrity and obscurity to reveal the lives of some singular men and women--from actress Kelly McGillis to nocturnal satanist Anton LaVey.

Walt Harrington is an award-winning staff writer for the Washington Post Magazine. A journalist for fifteen years, he has worked as a news, investigative, and feature editor and reporter in Pennsylvania and Illinois.

"Walt Harrington is a clear, lucid, sometimes quite compelling writer. He touches on the important social, cultural, and racial issues of our time."-- Robert Coles