Matt Baglio

Matt Baglio was born and raised in San Diego, and attended university at UC Santa Barbara, where he received his BA in English Literature.  He moved to Los Angeles after college, where we he began to write for several publications on everything from snowboarding to pop culture.  In 2000, he moved to Rome where he began freelancing for a variety of publications, including the AP.

In 2005, Baglio attended a course at a Vatican university where he befriended an American priest who had traveled to Rome to be trained as an exorcist.  Baglio spent the next three years following this priest while immersing himself in the world of exorcism in order to write The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist, published by Doubleday in 2009.  The book, which has been published in several other countries, was widely praised and has gone into several printings.

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