About Bill Lascher

Bill Lascher is an author, journalist, and historian. His books include A Danger Shared: A Journalist’s Glimpses of a Continent at War, The Golden Fortress: California’s Border War on Dust Bowl Refugees, and Eve of a Hundred Midnights: The Star Crossed Love Story of Two World War II Correspondents and Their Epic Escape Across the Pacific. He is represented by Jessica Papin at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret, LLC.

Much of Lascher’s writing features a strong sense of place and time, but he’s passionate about any great story. A widely-published freelancer, his work appears in Atlas Obscura, Fortune, The Oregonian, The Guardian, Pacific Standard, High Country News, Boom: A Journal of California, Gizmodo, the Portland Monthly and elsewhere. He previously edited the Ventura County Reporter and, before that, covered technology and legal affairs at the Pacific Coast Business Times. He also developed and coordinated community-focused journalism experiments in Portland, Maine (The Portland Pigeon), and Portland, Oregon (The Oregon News Incubator). 

A 2011 Knight Digital Media Center multimedia and convergence fellow at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Lascher earned a master's degree in Specialized Journalism as a 2009 graduate of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. His master's work at USC consisted of in-depth reporting on the rapid evolution of Southern California's transportation system amid the Great Recession. This degree also included a science writing emphasis and studies in environmental science and policy, global civil society and sustainable cities. 

A graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine and Oberlin College, where he studied history with a politics minor, Lascher was a news writer and editor, perspectives editor and world and nation editor at the Oberlin Review.

Bill Lascher lives with his family in Portland, Oregon. When not writing or researching, he plays pinball, catches up on video games (especially ones steeped in history), shoots and develops film photographs, haphazardly gardens, and cheers for the Los Angeles Dodgers.