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, Inner and outer turbulence in ‘The Stormchasers’, 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 Boston-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
United States. She lived in
Minnesota for four years. She taught
creative writing and communications writing at Boston University 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
Holocaust; 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, The Boston Globe, November 18, 2010, Inspiring connections, Accessed Feb. 2, 2014] It was a
New York Times best-seller
[Amy 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,]
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