 Bluh, as friends and family knew her, was brought up in Sunnyside, Queens, a neighborhood that has repeatedly appeared in her novels.Bonnie Bluh made her first appearance as a singer at the age of three on the "Hearns Radio Children's Hour".As she always liked to recount, she wrote her first play when she was 7 years old and set it in Africa, writing all the dialogue in a made-up language.