A new book about the children’s author is conscientious, respectful—and, like any good biography, dedicated to recovering vivid, occasionally unsettling particulars.

Philip Roth and Judy Blume were born five years apart in the 1930s. Both grew up in New Jersey, in the crucible of Jewish American suburban assimilation. Both were haunted by the Holocaust, news of ...

It was like doing another college degree, but you’re majoring in Judy Blume,” Mark Oppenheimer (here in his Connecticut home) says of his extensive research.Credit...Jillian Freyer for The New York ...

New biography from Mark Oppenheimer… of one of the world`s most treasured literary voices who brought us, Are You There God? It`s Me, Margaret; Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and so many ...

Blume tells the 'Today' host that, as a kid, she made up stories inspired by "all kinds of things that children weren't supposed to know or think about" ...

Judy Blume's own life story played into how one of her most iconic novels came to be. In the 2023 documentary Judy Blume Forever, the author of countless best-selling books for young readers opened up ...

In 1975, Judy Blume released Forever, a YA novel about a young woman falling in love for the first time and losing her ...

"Her work shaped me — both as a young woman and as a writer — in ways that can’t be overstated," the actress says of the ...

A Life,” Mark Oppenheimer’s thoughtful, thorough biography, makes the case that the writer, whose books in the 1970s and 80s made her famous (and infamous), was both a timeless literary talent and a ...

In 'The Genius of Judy' we meet the author like never before, and learn how she became one of the most-banned authors of the 1980s Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at PEOPLE. She has been ...

All the little girls — now mothers and grandmothers — who grew up reading Judy Blume will celebrate this biography of the beloved author. Great-grandmothers ...

The series will follow the love story of two Black teens Keisha (Lovie Simone) and Justin (Michael Cooper Jr.), young athletes who become each other's first love. By Lexy Perez Digital Editor and ...