Chip Jacobs is an award-winning Los Angeles-area author and journalist, who finds pretty much everything curious. His books include the biography STRANGE AS IT SEEMS: THE IMPOSSIBLE LIFE OF GORDON ZAHLER; the environmental social histories THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHEMICALS and the international bestselling SMOGTOWN: THE LUNG BURNING HISTORY OF POLLUTION IN LOS ANGELES; the dark humor true crime story THE ASCENSION OF JERRY: MURDER, HITMEN AND THE MAKING OF L.A. MUCKRAKER JERRY SCHNEIDERMAN; the stories collection THE VICODIN THIEVES: BIOPYSING L.A.'S GRIFTERS, GLORYHOUNDS AND GOLIATHS, and; the privately issue BLACK WEDNESDAY BOYS. His reporting has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, L.A. Daily News, CNN, The New York Times, Bloomberg, L.A Weekly, among others. He is currently at work on a historical novel. Visit chipjacobs.com to learn more.