About the Author

Founding editor of the Berkeley Wellness Newsletter, Deborah Chase is the author of 12 books including The Medically Based No-Nonsense Beauty Book (Alfred Knopf), Extend Your Life Diet (Pocket Books), Fruit Acids For Fabulous Skin (St Martin’s Press), Every Bride is Beautiful (Morrow), Terms of Adornment (HarperCollins) and with her husband Dr Neil Schachter, co-author of Life and Breath (Broadway) and The Good Doctor’s Guide to Colds and Flu (Harper). Her books have been a selection of Book of the Month Club and her articles have appeared in Ladies Home Journal, Self, Glamour, Redbook, Family Circle, Parents, and Good Housekeeping.

She is a graduate of Bronx High School of Science and a winner of the Westinghouse Science Talent Search. At New York University she earned a BA with a double major in history and journalism. She has done medical research on Interferon at Columbia Science Honors Program and on leukemia at the National Institute of Health.

She was part of the original research team on Retin A at New York University Medical School and that research on skin aging led to her first book, The Medically Based No-Nonsense Beauty Book.

Between books, she worked in medical communication, creating events and publications for clients that included Glaxo, Ortho, Genentech, Wyeth, Amgen, Hoffman-La Roche, CVS, Ponds, Honeywell, Lysol and 3M.

In 2009 she went back to school to study digital marketing. One of the requirements of the program was to launch a blog in order to put into practice what she learned in class. The course activity became her highly ranked site, The No-Nonsense Beauty Blog, that was named one of the top beauty blogs for women over 40 by Babble, Skintrium and Feedspot.

Her first novel, Georgia’s Folly, was published in Fall of 2024.