Known for her books about adolescence and all that comes with it, Judy Blume is widely beloved and widely banned. Her 1970 novel, Are You There... Judy Blume was banned from the beginning, but says ...

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, ...

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”.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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, ...

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

In Judy Blume: A Life, the biographer traces the life of an author whose candid novels about divorce, puberty, and other topics revolutionized literature for young people. Why did you choose to write ...

In 2023 the film adaptation of Judy Blume’s coming-of-age classic “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret” flopped at the box office. It was a surprising rejection of a story that, in novel form, had ...

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

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 ...

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 ...