ARC Review: Judy Blume: A Life by Mark Oppenheimer

I very rarely read biographies, preferring to learn about people through their own words. I wondered why Blume didn’t write her own story, but I learned that she prefers not to write nonfiction, and probably didn’t want to spend her limited writing time on a book about herself. I ended up learning a lot about Blume and appreciated her even more after reading this book.

I grew up reading Blume’s novels, which can probably be said about most girls ...