Judy Blume (born 1938) is an American author. She wrote many extremely popular novels for children and young adults in the 1970s and 1980s. The "Fudge" trilogy features a hyperactive kindergarten boy and his bemused family. Her novels for teenagers were among the first to tackle such controversial matters as menstruation (Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret), divorce (It's Not the End of the World), adult female relationships (Summer Sisters), and teenage sexuality (Forever). Fans of Blume's novels have praised her use of real-life settings, ambivalent endings and gentle humor. Her allegedly ambiguous treatment of moral issues made her at one time a regular target of school library censors and the religious right.
List of Published Works (by publication date)
- THE ONE IN THE MIDDLE IS THE GREEN KANGAROO (Bradbury Press, 1969, paperback Dell)
- IGGIE'S HOUSE (Bradbury Press, 1970, paperback Dell)
- ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT'S ME, MARGARET (Bradbury Press, 1970, paperback Dell)
- THEN AGAIN, MAYBE I WON'T (Bradbury Press, 1971, paperback Dell)
- FRECKLE JUICE (Four Winds Press, 1971, paperback Dell)
- IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD (Bradbury Press, 1972, paperback Dell)
- TALES OF A FOURTH GRADE NOTHING (Dutton, 1972, paperback Dell)
- OTHERWISE KNOWN AS SHEILA THE GREAT (Dutton, 1972, paperback Dell)
- DEENIE (Bradbury, 1973, paperback Dell)
- BLUBBER (Bradbury, 1974, paperback Dell)
- FOREVER (Bradbury, 1975, paperback Dell)
- STARRING SALLY J. FREEDMAN AS HERSELF (Bradbury, 1977, paperback Dell)
- WIFEY (Putnam, 1978, paperback Pocket Books)
- SUPERFUDGE (Dutton, 1980, paperback Dell)
- TIGER EYES (Bradbury, 1981, paperback Dell)
- THE JUDY BLUME DIARY (Dell, 1981)
- SMART WOMEN (Putnam, 1983, paperback Pocket Books)
- THE PAIN AND THE GREAT ONE (Bradbury, 1984, paperback Dell)
- LETTERS TO JUDY: WHAT KIDS WISH THEY COULD TELL YOU (Putnam, 1986, paperback Pocket Books)
- JUST AS LONG AS WE'RE TOGETHER (Orchard Books, 1987, paperback Dell )
- FUDGE-A-MANIA (Dutton, 1990, paperback Dell)
- HERE'S TO YOU, RACHEL ROBINSON (Orchard Books, 1993, paperback Dell)
- SUMMER SISTERS (Delacorte Books, 1998, paperback Dell)
- PLACES I NEVER MEANT TO BE [Edited by Judy Blume] (Simon and Shuster, 1999)
- DOUBLE FUDGE (Dutton, 2002, paperback Penguin 2003)
