Lesley M. M. Blume

Lesley M. M. Blume is an author, journalist, columnist, cultural observer, and bon vivant based in New York City. She has authored three critically-acclaimed books for Knopf and is currently finishing her fourth.

As a journalist, she began her career at The Jordan Times in Amman and Cronkite Productions in New York City. She later became an off-air reporter for ABC News Nightline where she helped cover the historic presidential election in 2000, the 9/11 attacks, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and countless other events and topics.

Now writing full-time, she has covered culture, media, politics, and fashion (and sometimes the thorny politics of fashion) for many publications, including Vogue, Slate, Mediaite, and The Daily Beast. She is a regular contributor to The Big Money and is also The Huffington Post‘s contributing style editor.

She 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.”

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.