Deborah Blum

Deborah L. Blum
Blum in 2012
Born (1954-10-19) October 19, 1954 (age 70)
Urbana, Illinois, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Georgia (BA)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (MA)
Occupations
  • Professor
  • blogger
  • journalist
  • author
  • director
  • science writer
Known forThe Poisoner's Handbook
SpousePeter Haugen[1]
Children2
Websitedeborahblum.com

Deborah Leigh Blum (born October 19, 1954) is an American science journalist and the director of the Knight Science Journalism program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2] She is the author of several books, including The Poisoner's Handbook (2010)[3] and The Poison Squad (2018),[4] and has been a columnist for The New York Times and a blogger, via her blog titled Elemental, for Wired.[5]

As a science writer for the Sacramento Bee, Blum wrote a series of articles examining the professional, ethical, and emotional conflicts between scientists who use animals in their research and animal rights activists who oppose that research. Titled "The Monkey Wars," the series won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting.[6]

  1. ^ "Deborah Blum, Master of Reinvention!". NewspaperAlum.
  2. ^ "Faculty & Staff | Knight Science Journalism at MIT". Faculty and staff listing for Knight Science Journalism at MIT. Retrieved 2015-07-15.
  3. ^ "The Poisoner's Handbook". Publisher's product display. Penguin Group. Retrieved 2013-11-01.
    Quote: "Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Deborah Blum follows New York City's first forensic scientists to discover a fascinating Jazz Age story of chemistry."
  4. ^ [1]. The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Retrieved 2018-09-24.
  5. ^ "Deborah Blum, author at Wired". Wired. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
  6. ^ "Beat Reporting". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-01.