Reading Judy Blume's sun-soaked 1998 novel Summer Sisters was a rite of passage in many readers' lives. Whether you first ...

The Next Chapter, Antonio Michael Downing hosted a discussion with Alicia Cox Thomson and Brian Francis. The topic centered ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I have a confession: I am not a Judy Blume girlie. But I was a girl who did not want to grow up. I craved escape (dragons, ...

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When Mara Brock Akil was a little girl, she voraciously read Judy Blume. Looking back, she sees her obsession as the start of her becoming a writer. So when Akil heard that Blume was allowing her work ...

"Her work shaped me — both as a young woman and as a writer — in ways that can’t be overstated," the actress says of the celebrated author Molly Ringwald voices a new biography of celebrated author ...

A new book illuminates the prolific author’s life, work, and fame. Her frankness made her a lightning rod.

Lovie Simone dishes on her new Netflix series "Forever," and admits she was determined to land the role after reading the original Judy Blume book in one sitting! Lovie also reflects on leaving her ...

The Women’s prize-shortlisted author on being obsessed with Judy Blume, hating Jane Austen at first, and the joys of Tove Jansson ...

You heard it here first: Southern Connecticut State University’s microfilm collection tops Yale’s. So observes New Haven author Mark Oppenheimer, who writes in the acknowledgments of his new book that ...

I have a confession: I am not a Judy Blume girlie. But I was a girl who did not want to grow up. I craved escape (dragons, princesses, Victorian orphans). Blume wrote about childhood and adolescence ...