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Lesley M.M Blume
- By K. D.
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Books Written By Lesley
- Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of The
Somerset Sisters. - The Rising Star of Rusty Nail
- Tennyson
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Lesley M.M Blume
- Lesley Is a author journalist, columnist,
cultural observer, and bon vivant, based in New
York City where she was born. - Most of her heroes sadly are dead or fictional.
Her heroes are Diana Vreeland, Marlene Dietrich,
Isak Dinesen, Katharine Graham, Zero Mostel,
Royal Tenenbaum, the Marchesa Casati, Oscar
Wilde, Peggy Guggenheim, Elsa Schiaparelli,
Anthony Blanche, Flora Post, Eleanor Roosevelt,
Lee Miller, Edith Wharton, and Collette.
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Her Life
- She lives in Greenwich Village with her husband
and their French bulldog, who was a featured
character in her bestselling book, Cornelia and
the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters. - Lesley was recently hand-picked by Vogue as a
founding member of the Vogue 100, an organization
of influential decision makers and opinion
leaders known for their distinctive taste in
fashion and culture, and who personify the
rising influence of women over the past several
decades.
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Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the
Somerset Sisters
- Eleven-year-old Cornelia is the daughter of two
world-famous pianistsa legacy that should feel
fabulous, but instead feels just plain lonely.
She surrounds herself with dictionaries and other
books to isolate herself from the outside world.
But when a glamorous neighbor named Virginia
Somerset moves next door with her servant Patel
and a mischievous French bulldog named Mister
Kinyatta, Cornelia discovers that the world is a
much more exciting place than she had originally
thought.
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Book Covers that Lesley has wrote.
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Tennyson
- When Emery goes off in search of his wife, he
leaves the girls with their Aunt Henrietta, at
his childhood home, Aigredoux. Aigredoux is the
ancestral Fontaine family home in Louisiana, that
Emery and Sadie left far behind when they
married. In ruins since the end of the Civil War,
the family has lost all their money and their
place in high society. Aigredoux itself has been
overrun by vines, moss, and the weight of its own
past. While there, Tennyson is haunted by dreams
of her familys past and the blood money that
built Aigredoux, on the backs of slaves. The
dreams horrify her and at the same time inspire
her to write the tale of her familys demise. She
knows that if she can get the story published in
the one magazine her mother always reads, Sadie
will see it and come back home.
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Lesley Extra Biography
- Lesley M. M. Blume is a writer and journalist
based in New York City. Her first book for young
readers, Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of
the Somerset Sisters, was published by Knopf last
July and was called "a fabulous read that will
enchant its audience with the magic to be found
in everyday life" in a starred review by School
Library Journal.
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Extra!!
- Born in New York City.1 Blume attended Williams
College and Oxford University. She was granted a
Herchel Smith Fellowship for graduate work at
Emmanuel College. As a journalist, she began her
career at the Jordan Times in Amman and Cronkite
Productions in New York City soon afterwards she
became an off-air reporter for ABC News'
Nightline with Ted Koppel. Her work has appeared
in many publications, from Slate to Vogue. - Blume's first book, Cornelia and the Audacious
Escapades of the Somerset Sisters, was released
by Knopf in July 2006.
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The Rising Star of Rusty Nail
- Franny Hansen is a 10-year-old piano prodigy
living in Rusty Nail, Minnesota. Once the Coot
Capitol of the world, in 1953 it's just a
run-of-the-mill town with one traffic light and a
bizarre cast of characters. She's long exhausted
the talents of the town's only piano teacher and
seems destined to perform at church events and
school assemblies, until a mysterious Russian
woman arrives in Rusty Nail. Franny's neighbors
are convinced the "Commie" is a threat to their
American way of life, but Franny's not so sure.
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Extra!!
- A novel about the daughter of a world-famous
concert pianist growing up in Manhattan's
Greenwich Village, Cornelia was a loosely
autobiographical work. Blume's own mother was a
concert pianist, and Blume created character
sketches based on the colorful people in her
mother's coterie.1 Cornelia was chosen as one
of the "Best Children's Books of 2007" and a book
of Outstanding Merit by the prestigious Bank
Street College of Education, and selected as one
of the Best of the Best Books of 2006 by the
Chicago Public Library. It is a Scholastic
bookfair bestseller. Her critically-acclaimed
second book, The Rising Star of Rusty Nail, was
released by Knopf in June 2007. According to
Blume's website, the story fictionalizes her own
mother's experience as a small-town piano prodigy
on the road to fame. In a starred review,
Booklist said that "Blume offers a story that is
as rich as it is delicious."
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Extra!!
- Her third book, titled Tennyson, was released in
January 2008, and is about a "ruined, elite
Depression-era family in Louisiana's plantation
country." Critics lauded Blume's "brilliant,
poetic writing" and placed her in the same
category as Southern writers Eudora Welty, Truman
Capote, and Flannery O'Connor Tennyson was the
subject of an unprecedented 15-minute interview
with Good Morning America's Robin Roberts, who
was raised in the Gulf Coast region depicted in
the book.
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Characters in all the books by Lesley M.M Blume
- Mister Kinyatta
- Cornelia
- Virginia
- The Maid and Butler
- Franny
- Emery
- Aunt Henriatta
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Best Selling Book
- Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the
Somerset Sisters
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Sources
- Amazon.com
- Google.com
- Bing.com
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