Bill Lascher is the author of Eve of a Hundred Midnights, a 2017 Oregon Book Awards finalist. Lascher wrote the American History Tellers podcast's Great Depression series. His journalism appears in outlets like Atlas Obscura, Fortune, the Guardian, the Portland Monthly, and Boom: A Journal of California. He previously edited the Ventura County Reporter and was a staff writer at the Pacific Coast Business Times. A graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, Lascher has a history degree from Oberlin and a master's degree in specialized journalism from the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Journalism and Communication.