In his comprehensive and quirky biography, Judy Blume: A Life, Mark Oppenheimer picks up on a journalistic tendency to describe Blume as “girlish”, suggesting it as a reflection of a critical ...

When Judy Blume gave Jenna Bush Hager a copy of “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret,” — whose heroine shares the real name of her 13-year-old daughter, Mila — Jenna immediately knew what she wanted ...

(RNS) — I had weird reading habits when I was a kid. For one thing, no one ever told me that there were certain books that boys should read, and certain books that girls should read, and that there ...

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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 ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) Roberts Blums scored 14 points and Sean Logan added four in the overtime as Davidson took down Loyola Chicago 64-59 on Thursday in the Atlantic 10 Conference Tournament. Davidson ...

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On Saturday, Blum is receiving the Producers Guild of America's Milestone Award for "historic contributions to the entertainment industry." By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer Jason Blum’s name is ...

Thrust unexpectedly into the top job, Olivier Blum reveals how resilience, discipline and constant learning shaped his rise to CEO of Schneider Electric. Got a confidential news tip? We want to hear ...