"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

Mindi Kassotis' friends and family were told the wife of a decorated former Navy JAG officer had died unexpectedly in a ...