 She later became an off-air reporter and researcher for ABC News "Nightline" with Ted Koppel in Washington, D.C., where she helped cover the historic presidential election in 2000, the 9/11 attacks, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a myriad of other events and topics.Blume now specializes in stories on historical cultural achievements, and has documented seminal moments in the careers of Jackson Pollock, Truman Capote, and Ernest Hemingway, among other greats.She contributes regularly to "Vanity Fair", and her work has appeared in "The New York Times", "T