Marilyn Yalom is a former professor of French and a senior scholar at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University. She is the author of widely acclaimed books such as A History of the Breast, A History of the Wife, Birth of the Chess Queen, and, most recently, How the French Invented Love. She lives in Palo Alto, California, with her husband, psychiatrist and author Irvin D. Yalom.
Books by Marilyn Yalom
Stanford University Press, 2021
Innocent Witnesses: Childhood Memories of World War II
Stanford University Press, 2021
The Amorous Heart: An Unconventional History of Love
Basic Books, 2018
The Social Sex: A History of Female Friendship
Harper, 2015
How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance
Harper Perenial, 2012
The American Resting Place: 400 Years Of History Through Our Cemeteries And Burial Grounds
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008
Birth of the Chess Queen: A History
Harper, 2004
Harper, 2001
Knopf, 1997