Christian Science Monitor: Are you there, readers? It’s a Judy Blume biography.
Judith—by then Judy Blume, and a frustrated housewife with two small children—sought a creative outlet. As she cleaned up after dinner, she devised tales and envisioned herself as “the next Dr Seuss”.
The New York Times: He Wrote Judy Blume’s Life Story. She Won’t Talk About It.
Mark Oppenheimer had many conversations with his subject for his new book. Then the relationship took a turn. “It was like doing another college degree, but you’re majoring in Judy Blume,” Mark ...
Yahoo: A biography of Judy Blume celebrates the author and reveals new details of her life — and she wants nothing to do with it
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I have a confession: I am not a Judy Blume girlie. But I was a girl who did not want to grow up. I craved escape (dragons, ...
A biography of Judy Blume celebrates the author and reveals new details of her life — and she wants nothing to do with it
In 2023 the film adaptation of Judy Blume’s coming-of-age classic “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret” flopped at the box office. It was a surprising rejection of a story that, in novel form, had ...
Mark Oppenheimer is an unabashed Judy Blume fan. He admits that Blume’s language could be more vivid and her plots less predictable — Blume herself says as much about her writing — But he admires ...