Chester Aaron

Chester Aaron (May 9, 1923^[1] – August 30, 2019^[2]) was an American writer.

Chester Aaron
Born	(1923-05-09)May 9, 1923 Butler, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	August 30, 2019(2019-08-30) (aged 96)
Occupation	Writer, professor, garlic farmer
Nationality	American
Education	Butler Senior High School, UCLA, UC Berkeley, San Francisco State University
Genre	Young adult fiction, adult fiction, memoir
Years active	1955–2011
Notable works	Better than Laughter * An American Ghost * Garlic Is Life: A Memoir with Recipes

Early life and education

He was born in Butler, Pennsylvania to Albert and Celia (Charleson) Aaron.

He attended the following schools: Butler Senior High School, UCLA, UC Berkeley, and San Francisco State University.

Career

In addition to his writing, he has worked as a steel worker, an X-ray technician, a college professor, and a garlic farmer.

Works

For young adults:

• Better than Laughter (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972)

Translated into German by Irmela Bender, illustrated by Willi Glasauer, and published by Beltz & Gelberg (Weinheim, Germany):

• Besser also Lachen: Kinderroman [Better Than Laughter], 1976, OCLC 74308733
• Im Wettlauf mit der Zeit [...] [In A Race Against Time], 1991, OCLC 74953051

• An American Ghost, illustrated by David Lemon (Harcourt, 1973); reprinted 2011 by Zumaya Publications
• Hello to Bodega (Atheneum Books, 1976)
• Spill (Atheneum, 1978)
• Catch Calico! (E. P. Dutton, 1979)
• Gideon: A Novel (J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1982)
• Duchess (Lippincott, 1982)
• Out of Sight, Out of Mind (Lippincott, 1985)
• Lackawanna: A Novel (Lippincott, 1986)
• Alex, Who Won His War (New York: Walker Publ. Co., 1991)
• Willa's Poppy (Zumaya, 2005)
• Home to the Sea (Brown Barn Books, 2008)

For adults:

• The Cowbank (1955) – play produced at University of California Berkeley
• About Us: A Novel (McGraw-Hill, 1967); reprinted 2012 by Zumaya – autobiographical novel
• Garlic Is Life: A Memoir with Recipes (Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1996)
• The Great Garlic Book: A Guide with Recipes (Ten Speed Press, 1997)
• Garlic Kisses: Human Struggles with Garlic Connections (Milan OH: Mostly Garlic, 2001); reprinted 2004 by Zumaya
• Black and Blue Jew: A Novel (Creative Arts, 2002)
• Whispers (Zumaya., 2004)
• Symptoms of Terminal Passion (El Leon Literary Arts, 2006)
• Murder by Metaphor, (Zumaya, 2009)
• 25 Loves (Andrea Young Arts, 2009)
• About Them: A Novel (El Literary Arts–Manoa Books, 2011)