It was deemed “whimsical … comical … delightful” by The New Yorker and celebrated by scores of other magazines, newspapers, and broadcasts. In the summer of 1925, Hemingway - then twenty-five years old - descended upon Pamplona for its infamous annual bullfight fiesta with a tempestuous entourage in tow, including a femme fatale British aristocrat, a brash, handsome heir who hailed from two of New York’s great Jewish fortunes, one of America’s most celebrated comedic writers, and a down-on-his-luck childhood friend with a penchant for cynical wit.īlume’s previous nonfiction books include Let’s Bring Back (2010), a cultural encyclopedia celebrating hundreds of forgotten-yet-delightful objects, pastimes, fashions, delectables, and personalities from bygone eras. In 2016, Blume will release her first major biography, Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises, which documents Ernest Hemingway’s early years in Paris and the torrid real-life events that inspired his iconic debut novel. Blume also co-created and served as founding editor of The Window, Barneys New York’s online fashion and culture magazine, and was the Huffington Post’s founding contributing Style editor. She contributes regularly to Vanity Fair, and her work has appeared in many additional publications, including Town & Country, Vogue, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Paris Review Daily. She later became an off-air reporter and researcher for ABC News Nightline with Ted Koppel in Washington, D.C., where she helped cover the historic presidential election in 2000, the 9/11 attacks, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a myriad of other events and topics.īlume now specializes in stories on historical cultural achievements, and has documented seminal moments in the careers of Jackson Pollock, Truman Capote, and Ernest Hemingway, among other greats. The daughter of a classical pianist and a journalist, she followed her father’s footsteps into the newsroom, beginning her career at The Jordan Times in Amman and Cronkite Productions in New York City.
Blume is an award-winning journalist and author.
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