Blumenthal, Karen

Karen Blumenthal is an award-winning children's non-fiction writer and a long-time journalist. Her book "Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition" received four starred reviews and was a finalist for the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award. Later, "Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929, " was named a Sibert Honor Book, and "Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX", won a Jane Addams Children's Book Award. Karen's recent book, "Tommy: The Gun That Changed America", explores the history and controversy of the famous and deadly Tommy gun. She liv...