朱迪·布鲁姆

朱迪·布鲁姆（Judy Blume，原名Judith Sussman；1938年2月12日—）是一位美国作家，擅长儿童和青年小说。她的知名作品有"Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret"（1970年），"Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing"（1972年），"Deenie"（1973年）和"Blubber"（1974年）。

布鲁姆在1969年出版了她的第一部小说，被认为是第一批撰写青年小说的作者之一，这些小说当时被认为是禁忌的话题。据布鲁姆所说，“我想说实话。我觉得没有一个成年人对我诚实。我们没有得到我们应该得到的信息。”布鲁姆因解决粉丝关于自慰、月经到青少年性行为、避孕和死亡等常见但无人倾诉的烦恼而受到好评。这也导致了希望禁止她的书籍的个人和团体的批评。美国图书馆协会（ALA）称布鲁姆为21世纪最受挑战的作家之一。

尽管布鲁姆受到很多批评，但她的书已售出超过8200万册，并且已被翻译成32种语言。她的作品获得了多项奖项，包括美国图书馆协会的玛格丽特·爱德华兹奖，以表彰她对青年成人文学的贡献。2004年被授予美国国家图书基金会勋章，以表彰她对美国文学的杰出贡献。

Judith Marcia Blume (née Sussman; born February 12, 1938) is an American writer of children's, young adult, and adult fiction. She began writing in 1959 and has published more than 26 novels. Among her best-known works are Superfudge (1980), Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (1970), Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (1972), Deenie (1973), Blubber (1974) and Double Fudge (2002). Blume's books have significantly contributed to children's and young adult literature. She was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023.

Blume was born and raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and graduated from New York University in 1961. Seeking to explore a creative outlet that would complement her role as a homemaker, Blume began writing stories. Blume was one of the first young adult authors to write novels focused on such controversial topics as masturbation, menstruation, teen sex, birth control, and death. Her novels have sold over 82 million copies and have been translated into 32 languages.

Blume's novels have been praised for teaching children and young adults about their bodies. However, in the United States, the topics of her works have generated criticism, controversy and she is one of the most frequently banned authors in US schools and libraries. There have been several film adaptations of Blume's novels, including Tiger Eyes, released in 2012 with Willa Holland starring as Davey, and Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret., released in 2023. A large collection of her papers is held at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University.

Early life and education

Blume was born Judith Marcia Sussman on February 12, 1938, and raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey in a Jewish family, the daughter of homemaker Esther Sussman (née Rosenfeld) and dentist Rudolph Sussman. She has a brother, David, who is five years older. Blume described her upbringing as culturally rather than religiously Jewish.

Blume witnessed hardships and death throughout her childhood. When she was in third grade, Blume's older brother had a kidney infection that led Blume, her brother, and her mother to temporarily move to Miami Beach to help him recover for two years. Blume's father stayed behind to continue working but flew to Florida monthly to visit the family. Additionally, in 1951 and 1952, there were three airplane crashes in her hometown of Elizabeth (1951 Miami Airlines C-46 crash, American Airlines Flight 6780, and National Airlines Flight 101). A total of 121 people died in these crashes, and Blume's father, who was a dentist, helped to identify the unrecognizable remains. Blume says that she "buried" these memories until she began writing her 2015 novel In the Unlikely Event, the plot of which revolves around the crashes.

Throughout her childhood, Blume was actively involved in many creative activities such as dance and piano. Blume has recalled spending much of her childhood creating stories in her head. Despite the love of stories, Blume did not dream of being a writer growing up as middle-class white women like her were encouraged to marry and have children.

She graduated from the all-girls' Battin High School in 1956 and enrolled in Boston University. A few weeks into the first semester, she was diagnosed with mononucleosis and took a leave from school. She later transferred to New York University, where she lived in a dormitory on Washington Square Park. In 1959, Blume's father died suddenly of a heart attack. One month after her father's death, on August 15, 1959, she married lawyer John M. Blume, whom she had met through college friends. Blume graduated from New York University in 1961 with a bachelor's degree in early education. The Blumes lived in New York City prior to having children.