The city now had skyscrapers, cable cars, grand hotels, horse drawn carriages, Victorian mansions on Nob Hill and the Cliff House Restaurant. She spent over two decades at the Wall Street Journal, and her previous books include The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco. Marilyn Chase begins her book, The Barbary Plague, with the history of San Francisco stating that it was once a boomtown brought on by the Gold Rush of the late 1840s. Marilyn Chase is a journalist, author, and teacher. She draws on Asawa’s extensive archives and weaves together many voices-family, friends, teachers, and critics-to offer a complex and fascinating portrait of this extraordinary woman.

With a deep understanding of the effects on public health o The veteran Wall Street Journal science reporter Marilyn Chase’s fascinating account of an outbreak of bubonic plague in late Victorian San Francisco is a real-life thriller. With a deep understanding of the effects on public. Chase brings Asawa’s story to vivid life. The Barbary Plague transports us to the Gold Rush boomtown in 1900, at the end of the city’s Gilded Age. The Barbary Plague transports us to the Gold Rush boomtown in 1900, at the end of the citys Gilded Age. This lively and compelling new book by journalist and author Marilyn Chase is the first biography of this major American artist. Chase recounts the incredible life of American sculptor Ruth Asawa (1926–2013), a woman who wielded imagination and hope in the face of intolerance and who transformed everything she touched into art. Community Events Friends Home A recording of this talk is now available to view here: įAL is very pleased to to bring Marilyn Chase, the author of the recently released book Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa to our Friends Home series. The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco is written by Marilyn Chase and published by Random House.

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