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Deborah Blum (born Octo) is an American journalist and the director of the Knight Science Journalism program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is author of books including The Poisoner's Handbook () and The Poison Squad (), and has been a columnist for The New York Times and a blogger for Wired.. As science writer for the Sacramento Bee, Blum wrote a series. Praise "The Poisoner's Handbook breathes deadly life into the Roaring Twenties."—Financial Times "The Poisoner's Handbook is an inventive history that, like arsenic, mixed into blackberry pie, goes down with ease."—The New York Times Book Review "Deborah Blum has not lost the skills of good storytelling she honed as a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.". Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the very best mystery fiction, shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. In The Poisoner's Handbook, Blum draws from highly original research to track the fascinating, perilous days when a pair of forensic scientists began their.

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