Jenna Blum (born c. 1970) is an American writer who has written three novels, Those Who Save Us, The Stormchasers, and The Lost Family.
[1] In 2013, she was selected by the Modern Scholar series to teach an audio lecture course entitled The Author at Work: The Art of Writing Fiction.
[2] Blum leads novelists as part of the Grub Street writing center, a Boston-based workshop for writers.
[3] Blum grew up with a Jewish father and part-German mother in the United States.
[citation needed] Her first novel Those Who Save Us was published in hardcover by Harcourt in 2004 and in paperback in 2005 and explored how non-Jewish Germans dealt with the Holocaust; according to one account, it shows the “grace and brutality of human interaction in desperate times,” and was described as having “wonderful prose” with “strongly developed characters.”[4] It was a New York Times best-seller[3][5] as well as the bestselling book in the Netherlands for one year.