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

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Mark Oppenheimer is an unabashed Judy Blume fan. He admits that Blume’s language could be more vivid and her plots less predictable — Blume herself says as much about her writing — But he admires ...

A Life’ by Mark Oppenheimer “Writing the first big biography of Judy Blume had to come with enormous pressure,” said Kate ...

Carlin is a contributor for TIME. Michael Cooper Jr. and Lovie Simone in Forever Carlin is a contributor for TIME. In 1975, Judy Blume released Forever, a YA novel about a young woman falling in love ...

Judy Blume's work has become beloved for its forthright honesty—and garnered plenty of controversy for its refusal to gloss over topics like sex and periods. These are independent reviews of the ...

It is true that, in an interview with the British newspaper The Sunday Times that published in April 2023, Blume said of J.K. Rowling, "I am behind her 100 per cent as I watch from afar." To ...

The new film “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret,” is shining a spotlight on Judy Blume, author of the original novel. Many of her books deal with issues of sexuality and adolescence rarely found ...

It's been nearly 50 years since some of Judy Blume's books were published, but that doesn't mean they aren't still getting banned. In March, Florida's Martin County School District removed her 1975 ...

In the more than 50 years that Judy Blume has been a bestselling author, she has endured wave after wave of bans and backlashes, provoked by parents organizations outraged by how honest her characters ...