Judy Blume

 Judy Blume is the award-winning and enduringly popular author of more than twenty books for young people. More than 75 million copies of her books have been sold, and she receives nearly a thousand letters a month from her readers. She lives with her husband on islands up and down the east coast of America. They have three grown-up children and one grandson - who persuaded his grandmother to write a new book about his favourite character.