Marilyn Yalom

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

A Matter of Death and Life

Stanford University Press, 2021

A History of the Wife

Harper, 2001