“What, no bath? No dinner ready? It’s six o’clock!” I vaguely remember smiling, thinking – that’s right. I had no idea what time it was until my then husband came home, found the kids still happily playing and me, reading. It was summer, and my two little kids were playing in our backyard sandbox. The book that made me forget to cook dinner was Them by Joyce Carol Oates. She majored in early childhood education at NYU and has honorary doctorates from Yale and Rutgers, tap dances, led Tayari Jones to her third publisher, likes renovation projects, is phobic about thunderstorms, and has a rest stop named after her: the Judy Blume Service Area on the Garden State Parkway. ![]() White Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Coalition Against Censorship. Other titles jumping from page to screen include an animated version based on Fudge for Disney+, a re-imagined series based on Forever at Netflix, and Summer Sisters at Peacock.īlume, the founder of the non-profit Books&Books in Key West, is the recipient of such literary awards as the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the Library of Congress’ Living Legends award, the Authors Guild Foundation for Distinguished Service to the Literary Community, the E.B. The New Jersey-born, Key West-based Blume was a producer on the movie, but she can also be seen in front of the camera as the subject of the documentary Judy Blume Forever. All told, her 29 books have sold 90 million copies, despite some of them being frequent targets of book bans. During the 80s, she received 2,000 letters a month. ![]() ![]() In addition to her books for young adults ( Forever, Deenie), she’s written picture books, children’s and middle grade books (the Fudge series), and adults ( Wifey, In the Unlikely Event, her most recent novel from 2015). Judy Blume chronicled the agony and angst of navigating puberty, adolescence, and sex for generations of the curious, confused, and clueless, and now comes Lionsgate’s big-screen version of arguably her angstiest, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (Atheneum Books for Young Readers).
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