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 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. Chase brings Asawa’s story to vivid life. With stunning narrative immediacy fortified by rich research, Marilyn Chase transports us to the city during the late Victorian agea roiling melting pot of races and cultures that, nearly destroyed by an earthquake, was reborn, thanks in no small part to Rupert Blue and his motley band of pied pipers. This lively and compelling new book by journalist and author Marilyn Chase is the first biography of this major American artist. In 1900, a ship called the Australia docked in San Francisco, carrying infected rats that. 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. Read The Barbary Plague The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco by Marilyn Chase available from Rakuten Kobo. 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 Marilyn Chase Random House Publishing Group, History - 288 pages 2 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google.

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