Deborah Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and the author of two BookSense 76 winners, including Aunt Claireis Yellow Beehive Hair. She worked as a home design columnist for New Yorkis Newsday, and her stories have appeared in national magazines such as The Washington Post, Family Circle, and Cosmopolitan. A native New Yorker, Blumenthal now lives in Houston, Texas, and works as a full-time writer.
