Personal Life
Blum is the eldest of four daughters born to entomologist Murray S. Blum and his wife Nancy Ann Blum, an educator and writer. Her father, a noted authority on chemical ecology, helped to mold Deborah's appreciation of nature and a respect for science. Her mother's influence may be seen in the daughter's love of language and writing.
She is descended on her mother's side from old Kentucky stock that traces back to pre-Revolutionary English-Americans as well as to long-settled Irish and German immigrant stock. On her father's side, she is descended from European Jews who arrived in the United States considerably later. Her paternal grandfather was a shopkeeper in Philadelphia and Chicago.
Blum lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with her husband Peter Haugen and two sons, Marcus Haugen and Lucas Haugen.
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