Novels by Tana French, Yann Martel and Cat Sebastian; memoirs by Christina Applegate and Liza Minnelli; a Judy Blume biography and more. Credit...The New York Times Supported by The latest from the ...

“Why her?” Oppenheimer, a journalist and religious-studies scholar, writes toward the end of a new biography of the celebrated children’s author. “What is it about Judy and her work that won her so ...