![]() ![]() ![]() White Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Distinguished Contribution to American Letters Medal from the National Book Foundation. That's familiar territory for Blume, writer of more than 25 published novels and winner of a slew of awards, including the E.B. According to TIME, which quoted a new report from PEN America, "book bans in the U.S. Libraries and writers alike have been threatened with persecution. Books have been stripped from the shelves. The banning, censorship and criticism of children's books has reached a fever pitch. So too the climate of moral panic that dogged Blume's work in the 1970s and '80s has returned. ![]() ![]() The documentary about her life and work "Judy Blume Forever," premiered at Sundance and is now streaming on Prime Video. At the same time, the feature film adaptation of her novel "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret" – starring Abby Ryder Fortson, Rachel McAdams and Kathy Bates – is arriving in theaters. Some of Judy Blume's books are nearly 50 years old, and they're suddenly everywhere, as is the writer. ![]()
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