Veronica Chater

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Veronica Chater is an American author and memoirist.{{Cite web |date=2017-12-12 |title=Walkout |url=https://www.thisamericanlife.org/207/special-ed/act-three-0 |access-date=2022-08-06 |website=This American Life}}{{Cite news |last=Chater |first=Veronica |date=2022-05-30 |title=Driven to become an auto mechanic |work=Christian Science Monitor |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/The-Home-Forum/2022/0530/Driven-to-become-an-auto-mechanic |access-date=2022-08-06 |issn=0882-7729}} Chater wrote a memoir of her childhood, Waiting for the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Faith and Family, highlighting her father's obsession with traditional Catholicism and belief in a coming holy chastisement, and her ever-growing family's consequential spiral into poverty.{{cite news |last1=Wittman |first1=Juliet |title=Taken on Faith |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/02/27/ST2009022702345.html |access-date=7 February 2021 |newspaper=Washington Post |date=1 March 2009}}

Chater was one of nine children; She currently lives in Berkeley, California.{{cite news |last1=Lattin |first1=Don |title='Waiting for the Apocalypse,' Veronica Chater |url=https://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Waiting-for-the-Apocalypse-Veronica-Chater-3170422.php |access-date=7 February 2021 |work=San Francisco Chronicle |date=1 March 2019}}{{Cite web |last=Pellissier |first=Hank |date=2002-11-25 |title=The Berzerkeley Macaw / A feathered home wrecker! |url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/The-Berzerkeley-Macaw-A-feathered-home-wrecker-3238337.php |access-date=2022-08-06 |website=SFGATE |language=en-US}}