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Lesley M. M. Blume

About the Author


Lesley M. M. Blum is a journalist and writer based in New York City, where she was born. She studied history at Williams College, Oxford University, and Cambridge University. After finishing her graduate degree at Cambridge, she worked for over three years as an off-air reporter and researcher for ABC News Nightline with Ted Koppel in Washington, D.C.

She has lived and traveled extensively in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, and she relied heavily on the travel journals from her adventures as background material for Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters. Now she lives... Read More