Lesley M. M. Blume is an award-winning journalist, historian, and New York Times bestselling author. She has reported for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, WSJ Magazine, Vanity Fair, National Geographic, Columbia Journalism Review, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Slate, Vogue, Town & Country, Air Mail, and The Hollywood Reporter, among other publications.

Throughout her career, she has interviewed and profiled numerous luminaries from various fields, including political leaders, nuclear experts, filmmakers, designers, and artists. She often writes about historical nuclear events, historical conflict journalism, and the intersection of war and the arts.

Her latest non-fiction book, Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed it to the World (2020), highlights how American war correspondent John Hersey exposed the true radioactive effects of the nuclear bombs detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The book received acclaim from various reviewers and is in development as a scripted series.

Blume has also extensively reported on the 1945 Trinity nuclear test and the birth of the atomic age. Her work on Trinity Test downwinders was featured at congressional hearings and admitted into Congressional Record.

In 2016, she released Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises, which became a New York Times bestseller and is also being adapted into a series.

For young readers, Blume has authored five critically-acclaimed novels and two collections of short stories. Her debut children’s novel, Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters, has sold over 300,000 copies.

Blume began her journalism career at The Jordan Times in Amman and Cronkite Productions in New York City. She later worked for ABC News Nightline as an off-air reporter and researcher, covering events such as the 2000 presidential election and the 9/11 attacks. She holds a B.A. in history from Williams College and an M. Phil in Historical Studies from Cambridge University.

Though a longtime New Yorker, she currently resides in Los Angeles with her family.