Marilyn Chase is the author of Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa (Chronicle, 2020). She is a graduate of Stanford University with a BA in English and also the University of California, Berkeley with a Master of Journalism. As a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, Chase covered a variety of medical beats including the biotechnology industry, disease research, and personal health for 30 years. She is the author of The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco, (Random House, 2003) and was included in the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program in Spring 2003. She was a visiting lecturer at Stanford’s Journalism Program teaching Narrative Writing in Winter 2018.
