Info on the Author

My author is “Judy Blume”. She was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey on February 12, 1958. She has had her books translated into thirty one different languages. Family and a career as an author is what Judy Blume found significant.  She started writing books when her to children started preschool in New Jersey, when she started she couldn’t stop, therefor, she has been writing ever since. She married a man by the name of George Cooper who is an author of nonfiction. They now live in New York City.

           Ms. Blume wrote the book titled “Forever” because her daughter Randy asked for a story about two nice kids who have sex with either one of them not having to die. The book was published in 1975. There are many lessons in this book such as sex is not just sex and it can have many consequences such as young pregnancy and more. This book gives parents the chance to talk to their children about their own option of sex, birth control, teen pregnancy, drugs and more. Many of the books Judy Blume has written are challenged but have never been banned. Books such as “Iggie’s House”, “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret”, “It’s Not the End of the World, Just As Long As We’re Together”, “Blubber”, Deenie; Then Again, Maybe I Won’t”, and “Forever”. Judy Blume writes about things that other authors are to scared to themselves which causes many people to have concerns, therefor, most of her novels are challenged.