Forever, one of beloved young adult author Judy Blume‘s most iconic books, started with a simple request: “My daughter Randy asked for a story about two nice kids who have sex without either of them ...
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 time, she wasn’t taking any chances. In the early 1980s, McGill ...
"It's getting a lot scarier," co-director Leah Wolchok told IndieWire of the political repercussions of YA novel censorship. Judy Blume has been fighting against book banning for a half a century — so ...
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 ...