Book lovers can meet Judy Blume, Isabel Wilkerson, Ocean Vuong and more at the Santa Fe International Literary Festival May ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

“Writing the first big biography of Judy Blume had to come with enormous pressure,” said Kate Tuttle in The Boston Globe. Blume is “a treasure, an icon”: Her books, mostly written for young adults, ...

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 ...

Long before the main character in her most famous book asked "Are you there God?", Judy Blume was on her own journey of faith. As a young child in the 1940s, Blume was forced to reckon with her ...

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 ...

Judy Blume books were all Mark Oppenheimer read from ages 9 to 12. What he loved about Blume’s books were the “realism.” He said he never wanted to read about dragons and aliens, which were geared ...

Long a prominent presence on the bookshelves of preteen readers, Judy Blume’s Just as Long as We’re Together and its companion novel, Here’s to You, Rachel Robinson, will soon have a new publisher and ...

“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 ...

If you tore through books like "Are You There God, It's Me Margaret," "Deenie," "Blubber," "Forever" and "Summer Sisters," this event is for you. After years of research and conversations, author Mark ...

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 ...