Bill Lascher

Bill Lascher is the author of The Golden Fortress: California’s Border War on Dust Bowl Refugees (2022, Chicago Review Press) and Eve of a Hundred Midnights (2016, William Morrow), which was a 2017 Oregon Book Awards finalist. Lascher also wrote the American History Tellers podcast’s Great Depression series. His journalism appears such outlets as Atlas Obscura, Fortune, the Guardian, the Portland Monthly, and Boom: A Journal of California. He previously edited the Ventura County Reporter and was a staff writer at the Pacific Coast Business Times. A graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, Lascher has a history degree from Oberlin and a master’s degree in specialized journalism from the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Journalism and Communication.