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Lochlainn Seabrook
is a published author and writer, antiquarian scholar, encyclopedist,
lexicographer, award-winning country music songwriter, musician, thealogian
(female-based religion), screenwriter, genealogist, and Civil War docent.
As a professional writer,
Lochlainn has authored 12 adult books, ranging in scope from the
anthropology of religion, Goddess worship in ancient Anglo-Celtic
society, and genealogical monographs, to Civil War ghost stories and cross-cultural
studies of the family and marriage.
His eight children's
books include a dictionary of religion and myth, a rewriting of the King
Arthur legend (which reinstates the original pre-Christian motifs),
bedtime stories for pre-schoolers, a naturalist's guidebook to owls, a
worldwide look at the family, a scientific investigation of UFOs and
aliens, and an examination of the Near-Death Experience.
Lochlainn's articles,
interviews, and award-winning poems have been published in various
periodicals, including: Modern Psychoanalysis, Skeptical Inquirer,
The
Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly, The Walford Gazette, Kindred Spirit
(UK), and Free Inquiry, and various other
publications, such as the Blakeney/Blakely Family Association Newsletter,
and the Tutt Family Newsletter.
Born of blue-blooded
Southern pioneers, Lochlainn is a direct descendant of European royalty through his Kentucky-born father and his
West Virginia-born mother. The 6th great-grandson of the Earl of
Oxford, he is cousins with General Nathan Bedford Forrest, Colonel John
Singleton Mosby, General Robert E. Lee, and Sarah Knox
Taylor (the daughter of U.S. President Zachary Taylor), the first wife of Confederate President, Jefferson Davis.
Lochlainn is a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV), and the 3rd
great-grandson of Elias Jent, Sr., who fought for the Confederacy in the
13th Kentucky Cavalry during the War Against Northern Aggression. Also
known as "Caudill's Army," the 13th was led by Lochlainn's 2nd cousin Col.
Benjamin E. Caudill.
Lochlainn is currently
working on books on his cousin, famed Rebel cavalryman, General Nathan
Bedford Forrest, the McGavocks of Carnton Plantation, and Yankee war
myths.
Lochlainn lives in
beautiful, historic Middle Tennessee.
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