A new book about the children’s author is conscientious, respectful—and, like any good biography, dedicated to recovering vivid, occasionally unsettling particulars.

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" ...

It was like doing another college degree, but you’re majoring in Judy Blume,” Mark Oppenheimer (here in his Connecticut home) says of his extensive research.Credit...Jillian Freyer for The New York ...

Few writers have shaped the inner lives of young readers as profoundly as Judy Blume. Since the early 1970s, the beloved author of classic books like Forever and Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret ...

Judy Blume's own life story played into how one of her most iconic novels came to be. In the 2023 documentary Judy Blume Forever, the author of countless best-selling books for young readers opened up ...

In 1975, Judy Blume released Forever, a YA novel about a young woman falling in love for the first time and losing her ...

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 ...

A Judy Blume classic has inspired a new and "epic love story." "Forever," a reimagined version of the 1957 young adult novel, follows the story of two Black teens, Keisha and Justin, exploring and ...

All the little girls — now mothers and grandmothers — who grew up reading Judy Blume will celebrate this biography of the beloved author. Great-grandmothers ...

"Her work shaped me — both as a young woman and as a writer — in ways that can’t be overstated," the actress says of the celebrated author ...

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 ...