A biography of Judy Blume, author of numerous books, has been released by Mark Oppenheimer, revealing new details of her life. The author, who initially participated in the biography and has since distanced herself from it, has since withdrawn from the project and is not promoting it. The biography, "Judy Blume: A Life," covers Blume's life over 400 pages, including when she had her first sexual experiences at 11, her first period (age 14), her first STD (shortly after getting married), her nose job (age 37), and her two abortions. Blume is known for her frank frank realism about childhood and adolescence and themes of divorce, menstruation, peer pressure, fat-shaming, shoplifting, voyeurism, and the gross and exciting mysteries of sex and puberty.