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The 2013 Fox Cities Reads is underway! Pick up a copy of Last Child in the Woods and the Nature Priniciple by Richard Louv at your local library and join in community-wide discussions about the book. The author will visit the Fox Cities April 22-24 during the Fox Cities Book Festival.
Author Biography
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. She writes for a wide range of publications, including The New York Times, Slate, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Scientific American and Time magazine. She also blogs about chemistry, culture (and the occasional murder) for the Public Library of Science at her blog, Speakeasy Science.
Blum teaches creative non-fiction, literary journalism and science journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she is the Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor of Journalism. Prior to joining the university, she was a science writer for The Sacramento Bee where she won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for a series on ethical issues in primate research. The series became her first book, The Monkey Wars (Oxford University Press, 1994).
Other books include Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Health (2006) and Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection (2002), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, which will be released in a new paperback edition by Basic Books in July 2011, and Sex on the Brain (1997).
A past president of the National Association of Science Writers (US) , she served on the board of the World Federation of Science Journalist for four years and was program chair for the World Conference of Science Journalists in Doha, Qatar last year. She currently sits on the board of the Council for Advancement of Science Writing (CASW) and The Open Notebook. In her spare time, she hangs out with her husband, two sons, and a very friendly Labrador at her home in Madison, Wisconsin.
Additional Information
- Deborah Blum's web site
- Blum on Facebook
- Blum on Twitter
- Deborah Blum on Huffington Post
- Deborah Blum on Slate
- Wikipedia on Blum
We take for granted out CSI-age, with scientists and police working together to solve crimes. But that's a surprisingly new idea; in the United States we didn't even teach forensics until the 1930s. So what was it like in the day when poisoners could operate with impunity (as one city report acknowledged). Who were the crusading scientists who changed that? And what can the lessons of past - the awakening of the dangers of everything from arsenic to radium - teach us about the dangers of today?
This session will be held in the Student Union. See the campus map for location. The closest exit to the Union is either Exit 1W or 5W.
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