# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/deborah-blum
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:04:09.940Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/deborah-blum"
name: "Deborah Blum"
slug: "deborah-blum"
description: "Deborah Leigh Blum is an American science journalist, and the director of the Knight Science Journalism program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of several books, including The Poisoner's Handbook (2010) and The Poison Squad (2018), and has been a columnist for The New York Times and a blogger, via her blog titled Elemental, for Wired."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Deborah_Blum_(2012).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
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  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1954-10-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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  - platform:  "IMDB"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump