Chester Aaron (May 9, 1923^[1] – August 30, 2019^[2]) was an American writer.

He was born in Butler, Pennsylvania to Albert and Celia (Charleson) Aaron.

He attended the following schools: Butler Senior High School, UCLA, UC Berkeley, and San Francisco State University.

In addition to his writing, he has worked as a steel worker, an X-ray technician, a college professor, and a garlic farmer.

For young adults:

• Better than Laughter (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972)

Translated into German by Irmela Bender, illustrated by Willi Glasauer, and published by Beltz & Gelberg (Weinheim, Germany):

• Besser also Lachen: Kinderroman [Better Than Laughter], 1976, OCLC 74308733
• Im Wettlauf mit der Zeit [...] [In A Race Against Time], 1991, OCLC 74953051

• An American Ghost, illustrated by David Lemon (Harcourt, 1973); reprinted 2011 by Zumaya Publications
• Hello to Bodega (Atheneum Books, 1976)
• Spill (Atheneum, 1978)
• Catch Calico! (E. P. Dutton, 1979)
• Gideon: A Novel (J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1982)
• Duchess (Lippincott, 1982)
• Out of Sight, Out of Mind (Lippincott, 1985)
• Lackawanna: A Novel (Lippincott, 1986)
• Alex, Who Won His War (New York: Walker Publ. Co., 1991)
• Willa's Poppy (Zumaya, 2005)
• Home to the Sea (Brown Barn Books, 2008)

For adults:

• The Cowbank (1955) – play produced at University of California Berkeley
• About Us: A Novel (McGraw-Hill, 1967); reprinted 2012 by Zumaya – autobiographical novel
• Garlic Is Life: A Memoir with Recipes (Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1996)
• The Great Garlic Book: A Guide with Recipes (Ten Speed Press, 1997)
• Garlic Kisses: Human Struggles with Garlic Connections (Milan OH: Mostly Garlic, 2001); reprinted 2004 by Zumaya
• Black and Blue Jew: A Novel (Creative Arts, 2002)
• Whispers (Zumaya., 2004)
• Symptoms of Terminal Passion (El Leon Literary Arts, 2006)
• Murder by Metaphor, (Zumaya, 2009)
• 25 Loves (Andrea Young Arts, 2009)
• About Them: A Novel (El Literary Arts–Manoa Books, 2011)