The first boy Mara Brock Akil ever fell in love with was named Stan Bradley. It was 1986, and she was 16. Stan had just been a boy on the periphery: His mother owned the beauty salon that her mother ...

Even as she wrote with deep empathy about the trials of young girls, Judy Blume remained a mystery to herself.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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..

Speaking to IndieWire's Future of Filmmaking, Akil explained how her new Netflix series serves as a "full circle" moment in her personal and professional life.

One of the biggest takeaways from the biography “Judy Blume: A Life” may not be in the story itself but in its author. Because of her frank talk about puberty and sexual awakenings, Blume’s work is ...

Elements of the author's life helped bring the book to life and shaped its ending Judy Blume's own life story played into how one of her most iconic novels came to be. In the 2023 documentary Judy ...