Charlotte Jacobs is the author of three biographies and a script. 90 Seconds to Midnight is her third story of a passionate individual whose lifelong endeavors helped safeguard mankind.

Jonas Salk: A Life is the first full account of one of America’s most beloved and decorated scientific heroes. Salk’s polio vaccine all but eradicated a crippling disease, and the scientific community never forgave him. Released by Oxford University Press in 2015, Jacobs’ book reveals the complex man behind the controversial legend. It received widespread recognition, including being named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book prize for Biography.

Henry Kaplan and the Story of Hodgkin’s Disease was published by Stanford General Press in 2010. Kaplan was an esteemed and controversial physician-scientist whose remarkable discoveries and vehement drive to cure cancer changed the course of cancer therapy. The Wall Street Journal ranked it one of the “Best Five Books” on doctors’ lives.

Engaged in musical theater for years, Jacobs co-wrote the script for Just My Type, with songs by Emmy winner Rita Abrams. A finalist for the 2018 Theatre Bay Area Award for Outstanding World Premiere Musical, Just My Type portrays how personality types, based on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator ®, affect one’s loves and lives.

Jacobs is the Ben and A. Jess Shenson Professor of Medicine (Emerita) at Stanford University where she engaged in cancer research, patient care and teaching. Mid-career, she began studying creative writing at Stanford. She has been awarded residencies at MacDowell Colony, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Ragdale Foundation, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.