The Wondrous Journals of Dr. Wendell Wellington Wiggins

About the AuthorLesley M. M. Blume is an author, journalist, and historian based in Los Angeles. She is the author of several critically acclaimed middle-grade novels, including Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters, The Rising Star of Rusty Nail, Julia and the Art of Practical Travel, and Tennyson, which the Chicago Tribune praised for its “brilliant, unusual writing.”Blume’s adult nonfiction book Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises documented the lives of Hemingway, the Fitzgeralds, and the Murphys in France in the 1920s and was a New York Times bestseller. Her second adult non-fiction book, Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World, received glowing reviews and was called “magisterial” by The New York Times Book Review.