Jenna Blum (born c. 1970) is an American writer who has written three novels, ''Those Who Save Us'', ''The Stormchasers'', and ''The Lost Family''.Nancy Harris, The Boston Globe, 2014

Accessed Feb. 2, 2014 In 2013, she was selected by the ''Modern Scholar'' series to teach an audio lecture course entitled ''The Author at Work: The Art of Writing Fiction''.2013, Recorded Books, The Modern Scholar, ''The Author at Work: The Art of Writing Fiction'' by Jenna Blum, Blum leads novelists as part of the ''Grub Street writing center'', a

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-based workshop for writers.Jan Gardner, The Boston Globe, July 4, 2010
Empowering writers
Accessed Feb. 2, 2014

Biography

Blum grew up with a Jewish father and part-German mother in the

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. She lived in

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for four years. She taught

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and communications writing at

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and also taught fiction and novel workshops for Grub Street Writers in Boston since 1997. Her first novel ''Those Who Save Us'' was published in hardcover by Harcourt in 2004 and in paperback in 2005 and explored how non-Jewish Germans dealt with the

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; according to one account, it shows the “grace and brutality of human interaction in desperate times,” and was described as having “wonderful prose” with “strongly developed characters.”Nancy Harris, ''

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'', November 18, 2010
Inspiring connections
Accessed Feb. 2, 2014 It was a ''New York Times'' best-sellerAmy Sutherland, May 15, 2011, The Boston Globe
The fast and the furious
Accessed Feb. 2, 2014 as well as the bestselling book in the Netherlands for one year.Jennifer Haupt, April 28, 2011, ''Psychology Today''
Jenna Blum: Write what you know about, live what you write about
Accessed Feb. 5, 2014,

References

External links

Official website

Interview with Jenna Blum, on Beyond the Margins, 2010

2022 Keynote Speaker Jenna Blum at 1455 Summer Festival
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