Career
She is a senior scholar at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University. She served as the institute"s director from 1984 to 1985. Marilyn Yalom has an extensive list of scholarly publications, including (1993), (1997), (2001), (2004),The American Resting Place (2008) with photos by Reid Yalom, and (2012).
Her books have been translated into 20 languages.
Marilyn Yalom was presented with a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Assembly “honoring extraordinary leadership in the literary arts and continued commitment to ensuring the quality of reading” through her book The American Resting Place: Four Hundred Years of History, thereby benefiting the people of the City and County of San Francisco and the State of California.” Her most recent book,, was short-listed for the Phi Beta Kappa Gauss literary award and for the American Library in Paris book award, in 2013. 2013 American Library in Paris Book Award, shortlisted foreign
