1. Deborah Leigh Blum was born on October 19,1954 and is an American science journalist, and the director of the Knight Science Journalism program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Deborah Blum is the author of several books, including The Poisoner's Handbook and The Poison Squad, and has been a columnist for The New York Times and a blogger, via her blog titled Elemental, for Wired.
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The eldest of four daughters, Deborah Blum was born in 1954 to Jewish parents in Urbana, Illinois.
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Deborah Blum's father was entomologist Murray S Blum and her mother was Nancy Ann Blum, an educator and writer.
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Deborah Blum grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Bristol, England, and Athens, Georgia.
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Deborah Blum graduated from the University of Georgia, where she majored in journalism and was chief editor of the student newspaper, The Red and Black.
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Deborah Blum worked as a reporter covering police, fires, courts, and other general assignment beats for newspapers in Georgia, Florida and California before she turned to science writing.
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Deborah Blum was on the staffs of the Macon Telegraph, the St Petersburg Times and the Fresno Bee, among other publications.
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In 1984, Deborah Blum joined the staff of the Fresno Bee's sister newspaper, the Sacramento Bee, where she broadened her range, covering science subjects.
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Deborah Blum expanded the Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper series into a book of the same title.
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Deborah Blum received the James T Grady-James H Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public from the American Chemical Society in 2015 for this book.
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Deborah Blum has written, most often about science and its interrelationship with American culture, for publications that have included The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Time, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Discover, Psychology Today, Rolling Stone, the Utne Reader, and Mother Jones.
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Deborah Blum is co-editor, with Mary Knudson and Robin Marantz Henig, of the book A Field Guide for Science Writers.