Harvard Book Store welcomes Mark Oppenheimer—journalist, historian, and acclaimed author of five books, including Squirrel Hill and The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia—for a discussion of his new biography, Judy Blume: A Life. He will be joined in conversation by Callie Crossley—host of GBH's Under the Radar with Callie Crossley.
To know the name Judy Blume is to know and love literature. Her influential novels turned classics—including Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret; Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing; Deenie; and Summer Sisters—touched the lives of tens of millions of readers. For more than fifty-five years her work has done something revolutionary: it rewired the world’s expectations of what literature for young people can be—frank, candid, earthy, and unafraid to show the messier sides of humanity. But little is known about the real woman behind the iconic persona, and the unlikely journey of her literary ascension, until now.
