MADELEINE BLAIS Crime: Impersonating a Good Girl Madeleine Blais, a professor of journalism at the University of Massachusetts, is the author of three books. The Heart Is An Instrument is a collection of her Pulitzer Prize winning articles for the Miami Herald, In These Girls, Hope Is A Muscle, a finalist in the category of general nonfiction by the National Book Critics’ Circle, was cited by Sports Illustrated as one of the top one hundred sports books. Uphill Walkers: Portrait Of A Family received a Ken Book Award from the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill.