What’s Up With Judy*
What’s Up With Judy
- The National Book Critics Circle announce that Judy Blume is the recipient of its Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award for exemplifying how literacy and literary access lead to liberation. March 21, 2024 was the awards ceremony.
- The Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill & the Fisher Center at Bard College presented Judy Blume the first-ever Eleanor Roosevelt Lifetime Achievement Award for Bravery in Literature. The awards ceremony was Saturday, February 17, 2024.
- CARL HIAASEN in-conversation with Books & Books @ The Studios founder Judy Blume discussing his new middle grade novel WRECKER. This event was on Saturday, December 9, 2023.
- Judy was in Conversation with Dani Shapiro on Saturday, November 11, at Books & Books at The Studios of Key West.
- The New Yorker Festival: Judy Blume and Curtis Sittenfeld spoke with Naomi Fry on October 7 at SVA Theatre, NYC.
- TODAY show host Jenna Bush Hager’s August 2023 book club pick is a timeless classic: Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
- Thrilled to announce “JUDY BLUME FOREVER” has been nominated for an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Documentary Or Nonfiction Special.
- Judy helped launch Carolyn Mackler’s adult debut, The Wife App. Thursday, June 29, 2023 – via Zoom.
- Judy urges everyone to stand with librarians against censorship and book banning.
- Judy’s Acceptance Speech at Variety’s “Power of Women” Supporting National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), April 4, 2023