Judy Blume is the author of Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and many other books. Blume has written 28 books for children. She wrote four books for adults.

Judy Blume was born in 1938. She grew up in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Blume says that she was always making up stories inside her head as a child. It wasn’t until later that she started to write them down. Blume got married in 1959. She graduated from New York University in 1961. She has two sons. The first was born in 1961. The second was born in 1963. Blume later divorced from her husband. She married two more times in her life.

Judy Blume’s first book was The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo. It was published in 1969. The book is about a middle child who doesn’t get enough attention. He feels that his older brother and younger sister get all the attention. In the end, he gets the role of the green kangaroo in his school play.

Blume’s first book put her on the map as a children’s book author. It showed how well she understands children’s problems and feelings. Blume says that she has a great memory of her childhood. She remembers what it was like to be a child. She remembers all her problems. She remembers how she felt about them.

Blume wrote some of her most famous books between 1970 and 1980. These include Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Blubber, and Then Again, Maybe I Won’t. Blume says that some of the ideas for her books come from her own life. Fudge in Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing is based on the antics her younger son Larry when he was that age (yikes!). However, Larry never swallowed a turtle. Blume got that idea from a news article she read about a toddler who actually did swallow a turtle.

Many people ask Blume where she gets the ideas for her books. Blume says that she always starts her books on the day that something different or unusual happens. It usually takes Blume about a year to write a book.

These days, Blume spends most of the year living in Key West, Florida with her husband, George Cooper. Blume meets fans of her books all the time. She is always nice to them—most of them are now adults. Most fans tell Blume how much her books meant to them as they were growing up. Judy Blume has tons of fans all over the world. Her books have been translated into 32 different languages. Millions of copies of her books have been sold. They continue to appeal to new generations of readers all the time.