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, ...

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

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

(RNS) — She is not Philip Roth. She did not need to be. She touched lives, and she healed souls.

Judith—by then Judy Blume, and a frustrated housewife with two small children—sought a creative outlet. As she cleaned up after dinner, she devised tales and envisioned herself as “the next Dr Seuss”.

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Screenwriter and director Kelly Fremon Craig, at left, adapter of the beloved novel "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret." by ...

Judy Blume was in the hot seat. It was 1984 and the author of bestselling children’s books including “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.,” “Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing” and “Blubber” was ...

Under the Radar speaks with author Mark Oppenheimer about his new biography detailing the life of the wildly successful ...

Long before the main character in her most famous book asked "Are you there God?", Judy Blume was on her own journey of faith. As a young child in the 1940s, Blume was forced to reckon with her ...

The Upper West Side performing arts venue will take its programming across the city while its doors close for a 15-month overhaul. By Michaela Towfighi Mark Oppenheimer had many conversations with his ...

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 ...