ABOUT ANTON LAVEY
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."
He was a photographer for the San Francisco Police Department for three years and also was an amateur psychic investigator.
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 .
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.
He influenced the musician Marilyn Manson .
