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Lesley M.M. Blume

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New York City, The United States

gender

female

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http://www.lesleymmblume.com/

genre

Literature & Fiction, Children's Books

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Lesley M. M. Blume is an author, journalist, editor, and bon vivant based in New York City, where she was born. Ms. Blume attended Williams College, Oxford University, and Cambridge University. She has authored three critically-acclaimed children’s novels for Knopf and is currently working on her fourth book. Upon the release of her third book, Tennyson, reviewers and critics placed Ms. Blume in the same class as writers Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welty, and Truman Capote.

As a journalist, Ms. Blume began her career at The Jordan Times in Amman and Cronkite Productions in New York City. She later became an off-air reporter for ABC News Nightline with Ted Koppel in Washington, D.C., where she helped cover the historic presidential election in...more Lesley M. M. Blume is an author, journalist, editor, and bon vivant based in New York City, where she was born. Ms. Blume attended Williams College, Oxford University, and Cambridge University. She has authored three critically-acclaimed children’s novels for Knopf and is currently working on her fourth book. Upon the release of her third book, Tennyson, reviewers and critics placed Ms. Blume in the same class as writers Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welty, and Truman Capote.

As a journalist, Ms. Blume began her career at The Jordan Times in Amman and Cronkite Productions in New York City. She later became an off-air reporter for ABC News Nightline with Ted Koppel in Washington, D.C., where she helped cover the historic presidential election in 2000, the 9/11 attacks, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and countless other events and topics.

Now writing full-time, Ms. Blume has covered culture, media, politics, and fashion (and sometimes the thorny politics of fashion) for many publications, including Vogue, Slate, and The Daily Beast. She is a featured contributor at The Big Money and is also a contributing style editor at The Huffington Post.

In fall 2010, Chronicle Books will release a book by Blume based on her popular Let’s Bring Back column for The Huffington Post.

Ms. Blume was recently hand-picked by Vogue as a founding member of the Vogue 100, an organization of “influential decision makers and opinion leaders known for their distinctive taste in fashion and culture, [and who] personify the rising influence of women over the past several decades.”
She lives in Greenwich Village with her husband and their French bulldog, who was a featured character in her bestselling book, Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters.

Sadly, most of her heroes and heroines are dead or fictional. They include but are not restricted to: Diana Vreeland, Marlene Dietrich, Isak Dinesen, Katharine Graham, Zero Mostel, Royal Tenenbaum, the Marchesa Casati, Oscar Wilde, Peggy Guggenheim, Elsa Schiaparelli, Flora Post, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lee Miller, Edith Wharton, and Collette.(less)

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Books by Lesley M.M. Blume

Average rating: 3.94 · 1,654 ratings · 442 reviews · 6 distinct works

	Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters 4.11 avg rating — 852 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Tennyson 3.56 avg rating — 298 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Rising Star of Rusty Nail 3.83 avg rating — 230 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Let's Bring Back: An Encyclopedia of Forgotten-Yet-Delightful, Chic, Useful, Curious, and Otherwise Commendable Things from Times Gone By 4.03 avg rating — 194 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Modern Fairies, Dwarves, Goblins, and Other Nasties: A Practical Guide by Miss Edythe McFate by Lesley M.M. Blume, David Foote (Illustrator) 3.71 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Wondrous Journals of Dr. Wendell Wellington Wiggins by Lesley M.M. Blume, David Foote (Illustrator) 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — expected publication 2012 — 3 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Lesley M.M. Blume

“Too many people realize at the end of their lives that they've taken for granted those who really love them. ”
― Lesley M.M. Blume, Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters

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“Are you watching the boats?" Cornelia guessed. She craned her neck to see if there was any excitement on the river.
Heavens no, I'm spying on people," Virginia responded unrepentantly.
-Cornelia E and Virginia Somerset”
― Lesley M.M. Blume, Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters

tags: audacious , blume , boats , cornelia , escapades , humor , lesley , mm , random , river , sisters , somerset , spying , words

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