LIKE MANY shy children, Judith Sussman spent a lot of time on her own, reading and inventing stories. It never occurred to her to become a novelist, though. In New Jersey in the 1940s and 1950s, many ...

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I’m Generation X, so of course I was raised by Judy Blume, the patron saint of teen girl readers from the 1970s on, with her frank, funny realist novels on everything from first periods to first ...

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 ...

“Why her?” the journalist Mark Oppenheimer writes toward the end of his first biography, “Judy Blume: A Life.” “What is it about Judy and her work that won her so many millions of fans?” Partly talent ...

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 adored the chaotic mayhem of 1972’s “Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing” and 1980 ...

The woman who became Judy Blume was born in 1938 as Judith Sussman, the much-wanted second child and only daughter of an upwardly-mobile middle-class Jewish family in northern New Jersey. In “Judy ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Mark Oppenheimer’s new biography reveals intimate details of Judy Blume’s life, including her marriages, abortions ...

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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 ...