About
Author, occultist, and musician who founded the Church of Satan in 1966. He wrote "The Satanic Bible" in 1969 and is nicknamed "The Black Pope."
Before Fame
He was a photographer for the San Francisco Police Department for three years and also was an amateur psychic investigator.
Trivia
He drew upon a diverse assemblage of writers to form the Church of Satan's ideology and rituals, including Ayn Rand, Jack London, H.L. Mencken, and Friedrich Nietzsche.
Family Life
He left his first wife for Diane Hegarty, who would help him found the Church of Satan and was also the mother of his second child, Zeena Galatea; they never married.
Associated With
He influenced the musician Marilyn Manson.
