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Jenna Blum
JENNA BLUM is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of novels THOSE WHO SAVE US and THE STORM CHASERS and the novella "the lucky one" in the WW2-era anthology GRAND CENTRAL. Jenna is also one of Oprah's Top 30 Women Writers. Jenna's debut novel THOSE WHO SAVE US was a New York... show more

JENNA BLUM is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of novels THOSE WHO SAVE US and THE STORM CHASERS and the novella "the lucky one" in the WW2-era anthology GRAND CENTRAL. Jenna is also one of Oprah's Top 30 Women Writers. Jenna's debut novel THOSE WHO SAVE US was a New York Times bestseller; a Boston Globe bestseller; the winner of the 2005 Ribalow Prize, adjudged by Elie Wiesel; a BORDERS book club pick, a perennial book club favorite, and the # 1 bestselling novel in Holland. Jenna's second novel, THE STORMCHASERS, is a Boston Globe bestseller, a Target Emerging Authors pick, and a bestseller in Holland and France. Jenna's newest work, her novella "the lucky one," will appear in anthology GRAND CENTRAL, published by Penguin in July, 2014. Jenna has been writing since she was four and professionally since she was sixteen, when her short story "The Legacy of Frank Finklestein" won Seventeen Magazine's National Fiction Contest. Jenna is a graduate of Kenyon College (B.A., English) and Boston University (M.A., Creative Writing); she taught creative writing and journalism for Boston University for five years and has taught fiction for over fifteen years for Boston's Grub Street Writers, where she currently teaches seminars and master novel workshops. Jenna was AGNI literary magazine's fiction editor for five years and now contributes Writer On The Road columns for Grub Street Daily; dividing her time between Boston and the Midwest, Jenna just finished writing the screenplay for THOSE WHO SAVE US and is writing her third novel. Jenna loves to visit book clubs in person, by phone, and via Skype. Please contact her on Facebook (Jenna Blum), on Twitter (@jenna_blum) and on her website, www.jennablum.com.
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Birth date: October 08
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Between Two Evils
Between Two Evils rated it 10 years ago
I wonder why the writer, editor, and publisher chose not to put the dialogue in quotation marks? I found it confusing (and annoying). Still, the mix of past and present worked except where the story felt contrived. The author did not convince me that Anna was real. Her motivations and loyalties were...
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JDCMustReadBooks rated it 11 years ago
Written by: Kristin Hannah, Melanie Benjamin, Jenna Blum, Sarah Jio, Sarah McCoy, Karen White, Amanda Hodgkinson, Pam Jenoff, Kristina McMorris, Alyson Richman, Erika Robuck ISBN-13: 9780425272022Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)Publication date: 7/1/2014Pages: 368My Rating; 4 Stars Grand Centr...
In Love of Books and Friendship
In Love of Books and Friendship rated it 12 years ago
I have always had a strange obsession with the Holocaust. A fascination that is yet to be satiated. This story of Anna and Trudie has been a generous and satisfying portion for that hunger. This story told in past and present by mother and daughter of their experience in wartime Germany and present ...
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Chrissie's Books rated it 12 years ago
No way was this an enjoyable book! It was excruciatingly difficult....but the end was beautiful, and that saved the book for me. Before choosing this book I read through reviews. One friend says in her review that the main character, Anna, a gentile German, was both naïve and uninformed when the st...
All I Want in my Life
All I Want in my Life rated it 13 years ago
I liked the book better once part two began. In the end, I was still indifferent. As a Psychology student, the topic of bipolar disorder is very interesting. However, throughout the book I felt a dislike towards each of the characters. Each seemed to overreact to small things. Knowing someone with b...
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