Judy Blume Biography
Judy Blume is born Judith Sussman is an American writer known for children’s and young adult (YA) fiction. She was born on February 12, 1938, to Esther and Rudolph Sussman. She has a brother, David, who is five years older.
She graduated from Battin High School in 1956, then enrolled in Boston University. In the first semester, she was diagnosed with mononucleosis and took a brief leave from school before graduating from New York University in 1961 with a bachelor’s degree in Education.
Judy Blume Age
She was born on February 12, 1938.
Judy Blume Children – Judy Blume Husband and Marriages
She married John M. Blume on August 15, 1959. She had met John while a student at New York University. They had two children: Randy, a therapist who was born in 1961 and Lawrence Andrew, a filmmaker born in 1963. The couple separated in 1975 and were divorced by 1976.
After her separation from John M. Blume, she met Thomas A. Kitchens, a physicist. The couple married in 1976, and they moved to New Mexico for Kitchens’ work. They divorced in 1978.
A mutual friend introduced her to George Cooper, a former law professor turned non-fiction writer. Blume and Cooper were married in 1987. Cooper has one daughter, Amanda, from a previous marriage.
In 1961, the American Library Association honored her with the Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement. Other recognitions include the Library of Congress Living Legends Award and the 2004 National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
She is the founder and trustee of The Kids Fund, a charitable and educational foundation. She serves on the boards of the Author’s Guild; the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators; the Key West Literary Seminar; and the National Coalition Against Censorship.
Judy is a longtime advocate of intellectual freedom. Finding herself at the center of an organized book banning campaign in the 1980’s she began to reach out to other writers, as well as teachers and librarians, who were under fire. Since then, she has worked tirelessly with the National Coalition Against Censorship to protect the freedom to read. She is the editor of Places I Never Meant To Be, Original Stories by Censored Writers.
Judy has completed a series of four chapter books — The Pain & the Great One — illustrated by New Yorker cartoonist James Stevenson. She has co-written and produced a film adaptation of her book Tiger Eyes, and her new adult novel, In the Unlikely Event, was released in June 2015.
Judy Blume Fudge
The Fudge book series (5 Book Series) by Judy Blume includes
- Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
- Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great
- Superfudge
- Fudge-a-Mania
- Double Fudge
Forever Judy Blume
Forever is a novel by Judy Blume which deals with teenage sexuality. The book appears on the list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000 at number seven on the American Library Association. The book won the Best Book of the Year Award (runner up 1975) and Margaret A. Edwards Awards.
Judy Blume Deenie
Deenie is a young adult novel published in 1973 which is written by Judy Blume. The novel centers around 13-year-old Wilmadeene “Deenie” Fenner, a model-in-training who is diagnosed with scoliosis and must navigate her family, friends, and crushes with the added burden of a cumbersome back brace.
Judy Blume Books
- The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo
- The Pain and The Great One
- Freckle Juice
- Soupy Saturdays with the Pain & the Great One
- Cool Zone with the Pain & the Great One
- Going, Going, Gone! with the Pain & the Great One
- Friend or Fiend? with the Pain & the Great One
- Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
- Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great
- Superfudge
- Fudge-a-mania
- Double Fudge
- Iggie’s House
- Blubber
- Starring Sally J. Freedman As Herself
- It’s Not the End of the World
- Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
- Then Again, Maybe I Won’t
- Deenie
- Just As Long As We’re Together
- Here’s to You, Rachel Robinson
- Tiger Eyes
- Forever
- Deenie
- Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
- Then Again, Maybe I Won’t
- Letters to Judy: What Your Kids Wish They Could Tell You
- Places I Never Meant to Be
Wifey - Smart Women
- Summer Sisters
- In the Unlikely Event
Judy Blume Children’s Books – Judy Blume Kids Books
- Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
- Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great
- Superfudge
- Fudge-a-mania
- Double Fudge
- Iggie’s House
- Blubber
- Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself
- It’s Not the End of the World
- Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
- Then Again, Maybe I Won’t
- Deenie
- Just as Long as We’re Together
- Here’s to You, Rachel Robinson
- The Pain and the Great One
- The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo
- Freckle Juice
- Soupy Saturdays
- Cool Zone
- Going, Going, Gone!
- Friend or Fiend?
Judy Blume Net Worth
Blume’s net worth is under review. It is worth noting that her books have sold over 82 million copies and they’ve been translated into 32 languages.
Judy Blume spent her childhood in Elizabeth, New Jersey, making up stories inside her head. She has spent her adult years in many places doing the same thing, only now she writes her stories down on paper. Adults, as well as children, will recognize such Blume titles as: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret; Blubber; Just as Long as We’re Together; and the five book series about the irrepressible Fudge. She has also written four novels for adults, Summer Sisters; Smart Women; Wifey and In the Unlikely Event, all of them New York Times bestsellers. More than 85 million copies of her books have been sold, and her work has been translated into thirty-two languages. She receives thousands of letters a year from readers of all ages who share their feelings and concerns with her.
Judy Blume Quotes
- My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.
- Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won’t have as much censorship because we won’t have as much fear.
- you can’t deny they ever happened. You can’t deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain
- [I]it’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.
- That’s not a bad word…hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn’t.
- The truth will make you odd.
- Not everything has to have a point. Some things just are.
- The best books come from someplace deep inside… Become emotionally involved. If you don’t care about your characters, your readers won’t either.
- Snoring keeps the monsters away.
- some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that’s the way it’s supposed to be.
- You’ve never been in love, she said. You don’t understand.
- If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities, Caitlin said, Then I haven’t missed anything.
- Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it.
- Like my mother said, you can’t go back to holding hands