page_title: Les Whitten
section_title: Writing
hierarchical_section_title: Les Whitten / Career / Writing
caption_attribution_description: English: Woodburytype of a portrait of Charles Baudelaire by Étienne Carjat.
context_page_description: Les Whitten was an American investigative reporter at the Washington Merry-Go-Round under Jack Anderson, as well as translator of French poetry by Baudelaire and influential novelist of Horror and Science Fiction books.
context_section_description: Whitten wrote nearly a dozen novels–political thrillers, horror, and science fiction – and translated poetry by Baudelaire from French into English.
  In 1976, his book Conflict of Interest met with such success that by 1978 he had stepped away from journalism to concentrate on his own writing.  He wrote multiple novels, as well as other books including a children's book, a biography of lawyer F. Lee Bailey, and a translation of French poet Charles Baudelaire, in his spare time while working as a journalist and then full-time later. His 1967 Gothic horror novel Moon of the Wolf became a made-for-television film, also called Moon of the Wolf, broadcast in 1972.
caption: Whitten translated into English the poems of Charles Baudelaire (here, photo by Étienne Carjat, 1863)
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