Deborah Blum - Cocktails and Cyanide

June 6, 2011

University Relations

Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Deborah Blum will take listeners on an entertaining and educational tour through the history of poisons, Wednesday, July 20, at 7 p.m. in the Schaible Auditorium. Blum will introduce some very clever homicidal killers and the early scientists who worked to determine what puts us at risk from poisons. The event is free and open to the public.

Blum, the Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor of Journalism at the University of Wisconsin, is the author of six books including The Field Guide for Science Writers, The Monkey Wars, Ghost Hunters, and her most recent book, The Poisoner’s Handbook, which was select as one of the 100 best books in 2010 by Amazon. Some of the many publications she writes for are The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, The New York Times, Mother Jones, Utne Reader, Science News and The Huffington Post. Her website is deborahblum.com.

“The Poisoner’s Handbook is an inventive history that, like arsenic mixed into blackberry pie, goes down with ease.” —The New York Times

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