Also by Marilyn Chase
The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
(Random House, 2003)
"A pleasure to read, full of people, dramatic situations, individual foibles and collective hard work ... The story, 100 years old, has much to teach us about today." – The New York Times Book Review
"Chase, with her elegant, subtle writing, brings alive the human victims, particularly the often-tragic lives of Chinese laborers trying to make a life for themselves." – USA Today
Recent Journalism
How Disney Propaganda Shaped Life on the Home Front During WWII
Smithsonian Magazine
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High Wire Artist Ruth Asawa Edges Into the Mainstream
Wall Street Journal
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At a Fabled Artist’s Colony, Ruth Asawa Found Her Voice
Literary Hub
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‘Films of Remembrance’ focuses on Japanese Americans’ time as prisoners
San Francisco Chronicle
February 18, 2020
Asawa’s great work relevant to anti-Muslim bias today
The Mercury News
December 2, 2016
One Less Investment Banker
Harvard Magazine
September - October 2011