Blum, Deborah: - Deborah Blum won a Pulitzer Prize for her writing and reporting about primate experiments and ethics, a subject that she further explored in her first book, The Monkey Wars. She is also the author of The Poisoner's Handbook (a New York Times best seller) as well as Sex on the Brain and Ghost Hunters. Blum is a professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin and has written for several major newspapers.