Chip Jacobs
Chip Jacobs is an award-winning author and journalist. His novel Arroyo, about Pasadena, California's mysterious Colorado Street Bridge, was a Los Angeles Times bestseller and a CrimeReads most anticipated book of 2019. His other books include Strange As It Seems: The Impossible Life of Gordon Zahler and the bestselling Smogtown: The Lung-Burning History of Pollution and its sequel about China, The People's Republic of Chemicals, the latter two with William J. Kelly. His writing and subjects...See more
Chip Jacobs is an award-winning author and journalist. His novel Arroyo, about Pasadena, California's mysterious Colorado Street Bridge, was a Los Angeles Times bestseller and a CrimeReads most anticipated book of 2019. His other books include Strange As It Seems: The Impossible Life of Gordon Zahler and the bestselling Smogtown: The Lung-Burning History of Pollution and its sequel about China, The People's Republic of Chemicals, the latter two with William J. Kelly. His writing and subjects have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Daily News, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Marketplace, Slate, C-SPAN, Los Angeles Weekly, CNN, and elsewhere. Jacobs, a graduate of the University of Southern California, is at work on his follow-up novel, and several non-fiction projects. See less