Lesley M. M. Blume
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Lesley M. M. Blume (aka Lesley Blum) is an author and journalist. Her 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 authobiographical work. Blume's own mother was a concert pianist, and Blume created character sketches based on the colorful people in her mother's coterie. Her next book, The Rising Star of Rusty Nail, will be released by Knopf in June 2007.
Born in New York City in 1975, Blume went to Williams College and Oxford University. She was granted a Herchel Smith Fellowship to do graduate work at Emmanuel College, Cambridge Univeristy. As a journalist, she worked at ABC News' Nightline with Ted Koppel, the Jordan Times in Amman, and Cronkite Productions.
She is married to ABC News executive Greg Macek.
