


Photo © 2006 Caitlin Crounse
Lesley M. M. Blume
About the Author
Lesley M. M. Blume is an author, journalist, columnist, cultural observer, and bon vivant based in New York City, where she was born. She did her undergraduate work at Williams College and Oxford University, and took her graduate degree in history from Cambridge University, where she was a Herchel Smith fellow.
Ms. Blume has authored three critically-acclaimed novels for Knopf Books for Young Readers: Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters (2006), The Rising Star of Rusty Nail (2007), and Tennyson (2009). Upon the release of Tennyson, reviewers and critics placed her in the same class as writers... Read More


Modern Fairies, Dwarves, Goblins, and Other Nasties: A Practical Guide by Miss Edythe McFate
Written by Lesley M. M. Blume, Illustrated by David Foote
Written by Lesley M. M. Blume, Illustrated by David Foote

The Wondrous Journals of Dr. Wendell Wellington Wiggins
Written by Lesley M. M. Blume, Illustrated by David Foote
Written by Lesley M. M. Blume, Illustrated by David Foote

The Wondrous Journals of Dr. Wendell Wellington Wiggins
Written by Lesley M. M. Blume, Illustrated by David Foote
Written by Lesley M. M. Blume, Illustrated by David Foote

