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Jenna Blum (born c. 1970) is an American writer who has written three novels, Those Who Save Us, The Stormchasers, and The Lost Family . 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. Blum leads novelists as part of the Grub Street writing center, a Boston-based workshop for writers. 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.” It was a New York Times best-seller as well as the bestselling book in the Netherlands for one year. References External links Official website Interview with Jenna Blum, on Beyond the Margins, 2010 2022 Keynote Speaker Jenna Blum at 1455 Summer Festival. Discover the Jenna Blum popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Jenna Blum books.
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The Piano Player of Budapest
Roxanne de BastionA story about a piano and its most prodigious playerand how they both survived one of the darkest periods in history.When her father died, singersongwriter Roxanne de Bastion inher...
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Tears Over Russia
Lisa BrahinA sweeping saga of a family and community fighting for survival against the ravages of history.Set between events depicted in Fiddler on the Roof and ...
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Poppy in the Wild
Teresa RhyneFrom the #1 New York TImes bestselling author of The Dog Lived (And So WIll I) comes a tale of love and devotion defying all the odds.After losing her beloved b...
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Last Days in Plaka
Henriette LazaridisAn immersive and multifaceted novelThe Talented Mr. Ripley by way of Elena Ferrantethat explores the lies at the heart of an old woman’s identity and the desperation of a young wom...
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House on Endless Waters
Emuna Elon“Elon powerfully evokes the obscurity of the past and its hold on the present as we stumble through revelation after revelation with Yoel. As we accompany him on his journey…we sha...
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Terra Nova
Henriette LazaridisA haunting story of love, art, and betrayal, set against the heartpounding backdrop of Antarctic explorationfrom the Boston Globebestselling author of The Clover House.“Ingenious”N...
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Grand Central
Karen White, Pam Jenoff, Alyson Richman, Melanie Benjamin & Kristina McMorrisTen bestselling authors inspired by New York City's iconic Grand Central Terminal have created their own stories, set on the same day, just after the end of World War II, in a time...