Lesley M. M. Blume

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Lesley M. M. Blume is an author, columnist, and journalist.

Born in New York City, Blume went to Williams College and Oxford University. She was granted a Herchel Smith Fellowship to do graduate work at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. As a journalist, she has worked at ABC News' Nightline with Ted Koppel, the Jordan Times in Amman, and Cronkite Productions. She writes a popular style and culture column for The Huffington Post.

Blume's first book, Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters, was released by Knopf in July 2006.

A novel about the daughter of a world-famous concert pianist growing up in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, Cornelia was a loosely autobiographical work. Blume's own mother was a concert pianist, and Blume created character sketches based on the colorful people in her mother's coterie. Cornelia was chosen as one of the "Best Children's Books of 2007" and a book of Outstanding Merit by the prestigious Bank Street College of Education, and selected as one of the “Best of the Best Books of 2006” by the Chicago Public Library.

Her critically-acclaimed second book, The Rising Star of Rusty Nail, was released by Knopf in June 2007. Her third book, titled Tennyson was released in January 2008, and is about a "ruined, elite Depression-era family in Louisiana's plantation country."

She and her husband live in Greenwich Village.