Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Given how deeply Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret resonates with readers, it's no surprise that many are eager for either a ...

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

I have a confession: I am not a Judy Blume girlie. Sure, as a kid growing up in the 1990s, I enjoyed some of her books. I ...

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

One of the spring’s most anticipated books is a biography of American literary icon Judy Blume. Author Mark Oppenheimer joins ...

Between the secret abortions and the "smutty" adult novels her friends begged her to hide, the new biography "Judy Blume: A Life" feels as illicit as snooping through your mother's nightstand.

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 ...

Judy Blume's biographer Mark Oppenheimer tells all on the author's childhood, her biggest controversies and more.

Judy Blume's work has become beloved for its forthright honesty—and garnered plenty of controversy for its refusal to gloss over topics like sex and periods. These are independent reviews of the ...

Writing for preteen readers in the early 1970s, Judy Blume offered stories that addressed life’s mysteries—including sex—with ...