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

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, ...

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

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

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

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”.

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 ...

Bush Hager's daughter Mila was able to meet the author who "wrote the first chapter book that I ever read" Jenna Bush Hager's daughter got to meet best-selling author Judy Blume — and she had the ...

Remembering Judy Blume’s books without replaying our own childhood memories might be impossible. This is mainly a guess, formulated after reading passionate reactions to Mara Brock Akil’s “Forever,” a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alexis McGill Johnson doesn’t know if she would have been allowed to read Judy Blume’s “Forever” in junior high school, but at the ...

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 ...