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It has sold foreign editions around the world, including in Germany, Russia, and China. Reviewers lauded Everybody Behaves Badly as “essential … a page-turner,” “magnificently reported,” “fiendishly readable,” “riveting,” and “the best book on Hemingway in Paris since A Moveable Feast.” The book was a Washington Post notable book of 2016, an Amazon’s Editor’s Pick: Best Biographies and Memoirs, and became a New York Times best seller shortly after its publication.

In 2016, Blume released Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises to commemorate the 90th anniversary of Sun‘s 1926 release.

She serves as an advisory board member for Outrider Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports journalism about nuclear issues and climate change. The New York Times picked Fallout as an Editor’s Choice and one of the 100 notable books of 2020 Vanity Fair, Publishers Weekly and several other publications selected Fallout as one of the best books of 2020.īlume’s subsequent work on Trinity Test downwinders for National Geographic was recently featured at congressional hearings on the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act and admitted into Congressional Record. Reviewers called Fallout “magisterial” ( The New York Times Book Review), “gripping and meticulously researched” ( Washington Post), an “enthralling, fine-grained chronicle” ( Publishers Weekly, starred review), and “journalism at its finest” ( Bloomberg). This harrowing and engrossing story will remind readers about the ghastly realities of nuclear warfare, and of the essentialness of independent investigative journalism in holding the powerful to account. Fallout documents how American war correspondent John Hersey helped expose the deadliest government cover-up of the 20th century: the true effects of the nuclear bombs detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Blume’s second major non-fiction book, Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed it to the World, was released by Simon & Schuster on August 4, 2020, to mark the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.