Judy Blume

Leah Phillips (Plymouth Marjon University)

Ed. by Dimitra Fimi, University of Glasgow
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 12 Feb 1938
Activity c. 1965-ongoing

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Activities

Other

Children's/Young Adult writer
Novelist

Resources

Blume's Works

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Author, teacher, mentor, tireless opponent of censorship and the guru of girlhood are just a few of the appellatives Judy Blume has acquired over her nearly fifty-year career as a writer for children and young adults. Through the adventures of Margaret, Deenie, Katherine and a host of others, Blume frankly explores racism, religion, family life, menarche, sexuality, body image, and what it means to be a girl while also legitimising and celebrating the interior lives of young girls. Indeed, Judy Blume's role in the lives of girls and women is indelible. With several of her seminal works —

Are You There God? It's Me, Margret

(1970),

Deenie

(1973), and

Forever

(1975) — first appearing in the early 1970s, Blume is also central to the golden age of young adult literature (YA) and thus to…

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Citation: Phillips, Leah. "Judy Blume". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 16 July 2018 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14060, accessed 03 December 2024.]