HMS Belfast

HMS Belfast

Charles sitting in the captain’s chair on the bridge of the museum ship HMS Belfast, a World War Two cruiser anchored in the Thames.

Charles McCain is a novelist, financial writer, speaker, humorist, essayist, and podcaster who lives in Washington DC.

He has worked for more than thirty years in financial services and is a national expert on the products and services provided to individuals and corporations by the financial services industry.

He has written more than 200 articles on wealth management for a private consulting firm. Charles writes on many subjects, especially his native South.

His non-financial work has appeared in Salon, the BBC and gay.com

McCain is a commercially published novelist. His first novel, An Honorable German, a World War Two naval epic, was published in hardback in 2009 and paperback in 2010 by Hachette Book Group/Grand Central Publishing/Little Brown & Co.

Charles is an expert on the maritime conflict and ground fighting in the European Theater of World War Two and has spoken on these subjects at the US Naval Museum and other venues.

He is a keen listener, talented writer in any media, captivating speaker, and a cancer survivor.

He is a member of the Authors Guild of America with membership limited to commercially published authors, Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society, and the prestigious Safeway discount club.

He holds a BA in history from Tulane University and is a Fellow of the Loyola University Institute of Politics in New Orleans.

Charles McCain is a novelist, financial writer, speaker, humorist, essayist, and podcaster who lives in Washington DC.

He has worked for more than thirty years in financial services and is a national expert on the products and services provided to individuals and corporations by the financial services industry.

He has written more than 200 articles on wealth management for a private consulting firm. Charles writes on many subjects, especially his native South.

His non-financial work has appeared in Salon, the BBC and gay.com

McCain is a commercially published novelist. His first novel, An Honorable German, a World War Two naval epic, was published in hardback in 2009 and paperback in 2010 by Hachette Book Group/Grand Central Publishing/Little Brown & Co.

Charles is an expert on the maritime conflict and ground fighting in the European Theater of World War Two and has spoken on these subjects at the US Naval Museum and other venues.

He is a keen listener, talented writer in any media, captivating speaker, and a cancer survivor.

He is a member of the Authors Guild of America with membership limited to commercially published authors, Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society, and the prestigious Safeway discount club.

He holds a BA in history from Tulane University and is a Fellow of the Loyola University Institute of Politics in New Orleans.