# Event Details - **Event Name**: Author Talk: Mark Oppenheimer - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 15 Apr, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Wed, 15 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: Author Talk: Mark OppenheimerAbout this Event*****We're thrilled to welcome Mark Oppenheimer to Bedford Books! He will discuss his highly anticipated new biography, Judy Blume: A Life, with our dear friend and bestselling author Haley Cohen Gilliland.Books will be available for sale and signing, and light refreshments will be served. Ticket price includes a $20 shopping credit to use at the event.About the Book:The highly anticipated biography of one of the world’s most treasured literary voices, showcasing a life as triumphant and inspiring as the stories she crafted.To know the name Judy Blume is to know and love literature. Her influential novels turned classics—including Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret; Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing; Deenie; and Summer Sisters—touched the lives of tens of millions of readers. For more than fifty-five years her work has done something revolutionary: it rewired the world’s expectations of what literature for young people can be—frank, candid, earthy, and unafraid to show the messier sides of humanity. But little is known about the real woman behind the iconic persona, and the unlikely journey of her literary ascension, until now.In Judy Blume, journalist, historian, and longtime Blume aficionado Mark Oppenheimer pens a beautiful, multidimensional portrait of the acclaimed author through extensive interviews with Blume herself, invaluable access to her papers and correspondence, and thoughtful analysis of Blume’s beloved novels, including early, unpublished works that shed light on the pathbreaking writer she would become. Oppenheimer goes deep, exploring Blume’s middle-class 1950s upbringing, complicated childhood, varied relationships and marriages, unabashed sexual experiences, bouts of heartache and loss, and enduring legacy as a champion of free speech and contemporary literature. Oppenheimer peels back the curtain to reveal the woman behind the literary empire in all her complex, multifaceted glory—a true gift for anyone who grew up reading and loving these extraordinary books. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/bedford/author-talk-mark-oppenheimer/100001984875800952 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, workshops, shopping - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 23.18, max: 23.18, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Bedford - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: Bedford Books - **lat**: 41.2042844 - **long**: -73.64335299999999 - **full address**: Bedford Books, 13 Court Road, Bedford, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Author Talk: Mark Oppenheimer - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/394a4898652da9de76cc756cb87ff799246667c22ebfee354933b8d88d8409a0-rimg-w1200-h600-dcffffff-gmir.jpg?v=1773378504 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Author Talk: Mark Oppenheimer being held? - **A:** Author Talk: Mark Oppenheimer takes place on Wed, 15 Apr, 2026 at 06:30 pm to Wed, 15 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Bedford Books, 13 Court Road, Bedford, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Author Talk: Mark Oppenheimer? - **A:** Author Talk: Mark Oppenheimer is organized by Bedford Books. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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