Deborah Blum is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer and the author of five books, most recently The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York, a New York Times paperback best seller and one of Amazon's Top 100 Books of 2010. Blum writes for a wide range of publications, including the Los Angeles Times, New Scientist, New York Times, Slate, Wall Street Journal, and The Guardian. Blum teaches writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she is the Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor of Journalism, and she also blogs about chemistry, culture, and the occasional murder for the Public Library of Science at scienceblogs.com/speakeasyscience.
