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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
MARILYN CHASE has been a reporter for The Wall Street Journal since 1978, concentrating on medical science and health care, and covering stories from cancer and AIDS to bioterrorism; she has been writing about epidemics for the newspaper since 1984. A graduate of Stanford University, Chase was awarded departmental honors in English literature. She attended graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley, earning a master’s degree in journalism. Chase lives with her family in San Francisco.
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Chase, Marilyn
The Barbary plague: the black death in Victorian San Francisco/Marilyn Chase.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-1-58836-285-8
1. Plague—California—San Francisco—History—20th century.
I. Title.
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