Bill Lascher
Journalist, narrative nonfiction author, and freelance writer crafting stories about the intersection of people, history and place.
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About
Bill Lascher is an acclaimed writer who crafts stories about people, history, and place through immersive narrative and meticulous research. Lascher has 15+ years of experience as a journalist and narrative nonfiction author crafting engaging, award-winning stories for print, radio, podcast and digital platforms. His books include A Danger Shared: A Journalist’s Glimpses of a Continent at War (Blacksmith Books, 2024), The Golden Fortress: California’s Border War on Dust Bowl Refugees (Chicago Review Press, 2022), and Eve of a Hundred Midnights: The Star Crossed Love Story of Two World War II Correspondents and Their Epic Escape Across the Pacific (William Morrow, 2016). Lascher's journalism has appeared in such outlets as Atlas Obscura, Fortune, the Guardian, Portland Monthly, and Boom: A Journal of California. He previously edited the Ventura County Reporter in Ventura, California, and was a staff writer at the Pacific Coast Business Times in Santa Barbara, California.
Experience
Feb 2009
Nov 2019
Nov 2022 to May 2023
Sep 2017 to Mar 2020
May 2011 to Dec 2017
Apr 2012 to Jun 2012
May 2007 to Jun 2008
Sep 2005 to May 2007
Apr 2003 to Aug 2004
Education
M.A.
Certificate
BA