Judy serves on the board of the Key West Literary Seminar. Additionally, she is an advisory member of the board for the Authors Guild. In 2016 Blume and her husband, George Cooper, longing for a bookstore in Key West where they live, founded the independent, non-profit Books & Books @...
I can escape back to my childhood any time I want simply by opening a Judy Blume book. Thank you, thank you!!! P.S - maybe one day I’ll make it down to Key West to visit your book store- and hopefully you too!! You have done great things for children all around the world....
Judy serves on the board of the Key West Literary Seminar. Additionally, she is an advisory member of the board for the Authors Guild. In 2016 Blume and her husband, George Cooper, longing for a bookstore in Key West where they live, founded the independent, non-profit Books & Books @...
Several of Blume’s own novels like Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret, Blubber and Then Again, Maybe I Won’t have been banned on and off for her entire career. The author, who now owns a bookstore in Key West, has remained a fierce advocate on this issue and more. ...
Judy gushes about what a wonderful mentor Mitchell has been in the art of bookselling, and Mitchell returns the favor: “Theirs is the first bookstore that really made it in Key West,” he says. “They have completely changed the literary community there.” She waves off the praise: “It...
women my age who grew up reading Judy Blume). The second photo is from when I appeared on stage WITH Judy Blume at Symphony Space in NYC in celebration of her 80th birthday. Earlier in the Green Room, Judy told me that she was carrying mySam & Evabook in her Key West bookstore!
, and whether she will write another book. “There’s something small, something different, brewing,” Blume said. She added that she is also busy doing a different kind of work—running her Key West bookstore, Books & Books: “Now I have a bookstore to go to ever...
Yes. My husband was a law professor. He also wrote non-fiction books. When we moved to Key West, he started a non-profit movie theater. I call him Mister Movie! But now he and I have started a non-profit, independent bookstoreBooks & Books @ The Studios ...
This free, in-person event took place outdoors at Hugh’s View, roof top terrace of The Studios of Key West.