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Chip Jacobs is an award-winning author and journalist.

His books include the biography Strange As It Seems: the Impossible Life of Gordon Zahler ; the environmental social histories The Peoples Republic of Chemicals and the international bestselling Smogtown: the Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles ; the dark-humor true crime caper The Ascension of Jerry ; and the stories collection The Vicodin Thieves .

He also has contributed pieces to anthologies, most recently for Los Angeles in the 1970s : Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine about the attack on an idealist lawyer by a depraved cult.

His reporting has appeared in the Los Angeles Times , L.

Daily News , CNN, The New York Times , Bloomberg , and LA Weekly , among others.