Bureau Chief for KQED FM in San Francisco. She has also hosted and reported for NPR programs, including Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Day to Day, as well as American Public Media’s Marketplace and Weekend America. Prior to that, she was the host of KPCC’s All Things Considered. She lives in Florida.Īlex Cohen is co-host of KPCC’s Take Two show. In 2004, Blume was awarded the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She is a champion of intellectual freedom, working with the National Coalition Against Censorship in support of teachers, librarians, and students. Her books have sold more than eighty-five million copies in thirty-two languages. Her twenty-eight previous titles include Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret Forever, and Summer Sisters. Judy Blume grew up in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and was a teenager in 1952 when the real events in her newest adult novel, In the Unlikely Event, took place.
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