Judy Blundell, pseudonym Jude Watson, is an American author of books for middle grade, young adult, and adult readers.She won the annual National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2008 for the young-adult novel What I Saw and How I Lied, published under her real name by Scholastic Books.Blundell lives in a small village called Stony Brook, on Long Island, with her daughter and husband.