As a travel/lifestyle and history journalist, James T. Bartlett has written for over 150 publications including the Los Angeles Times, BBC, Los Angeles Daily News, Westways, nonstoplife, SFGate, Crime Reads, Vera, National Geographic Traveler Atlas Obscura, Los Angeles Magazine, American Way, Hemispheres, Frommers, Real Crime, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, Variety and many others.
He is also the author of the Anthony-nominated and National Indie Excellence and PSWA Award-Winning true crime book "The Alaskan Blonde: Sex, Secrets, and the Hollywood Scandal that Shocked America", as well as the "Gourmet Ghosts" alternative guides to Los Angeles' haunted bars, restaurants and hotels—and the true crimes and history behind them.
He lives in Los Angeles, and being from England, he travels everywhere with teabags.