When you first hit puberty, it’s very likely that a kind adult (a librarian, a teacher, your mother, your aunt) handed you one of Judy Blume’s books to see you through. Blume’s classic young adult ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Judy Blume Forever” chronicles the life of the bestselling author from her start writing children’s books to material that was ...

The author's first marriage ended as the sexual revolution was changing what women sought out of relationships, marriage and ...

Emmy-nominated directors Davina Pardo and Leah Wolchok talk about the enduring legacy of the author and eponymous subject of their documentary. By Matthew Jacobs thrnews@thr.com LEAH WOLCHOK Judy has ...

It's a great time to be Judy Blume. In April, the onscreen adaptation of "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret" made its way to cinemas, 53 years after the seminal YA novel was first released in 1970.

If you didn’t grow up on Judy Blume books, I’m so sorry. You should go back and read a few now, probably; it might retroactively make puberty 50 percent easier. She’s famous for her ...

"Judy Blume Forever" directors Davina Pardo and Leah Wolchok didn't predict the current moment in American culture when they started the documentary. Pardo grew up a lifelong Judy Blume fan, she tells ...

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 ...

New biography from Mark Oppenheimer… of one of the world`s most treasured literary voices who brought us, Are You There God? It`s Me, Margaret; Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and so many more..

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 ...

Blume tells the 'Today' host that, as a kid, she made up stories inspired by "all kinds of things that children weren't supposed to know or think about" Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty; Nathan Congleton/NBC ...

The woman who became Judy Blume was born in 1938 as Judith Sussman, the much-wanted second child and only daughter of an upwardly-mobile middle-class Jewish family in northern New Jersey. In “Judy ...