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| Pen name | Jude Watson |
| Notable works | What I Saw and How I Lied |
| Notable awards | National Book Award for Young People's Literature |
Judy Blundell,pseudonymJude Watson, is an American author of books for middle grade, young adult, and adult readers.[1]She won the annualNational Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2008 for theyoung adult novelWhat I Saw and How I Lied, published under her real name byScholastic Books.[2][3]
Blundell is better known as Jude Watson, an author ofbooks set in theStar Wars universe. Her publisher, Scholastic, calls her "the most celebrated author in the prequel-era of the Star Wars phenomenon"[1] (that is, Star Wars fiction set in the time frame of thethree prequel movies).
Writing for the Star Wars franchise, she worked with editors fromLucasBooks as well as Scholastic. Her debut came when LucasBooks recruited her to write the Star Wars JournalCaptive to Evil by Princess Leia Organa, published by Scholastic in 1998.[1]
Beside the journals ofPrincess Leia,Queen Amidala (1999), andDarth Maul (1999), Watson is the author of three series that comprise about forty books:Jedi Apprentice (except for the first book),Jedi Quest, andThe Last of the Jedi. She is also a co-author withK. D. Burkett in theStar Wars: Science Adventures series. Scholastic says that the primary audience is children age 9 to 14.[1]
Her other books include the romance seriesBrides of Wildcat County, the parapsychic science fiction worksPremonitions andDisappearance, and three books in the39 Clues mystery-adventure series, all written for young adults. In 2018 she published the bookA Warp in Time.
Blundell lives in a small village called Stony Brook, on Long Island, with her daughter and husband.[1] Her husband, Neil Watson, is the Executive Director of the Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages.
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