Judy Blume Says Book Banning In US “Worse Than 1980s – It’s Become Political”
deadline.comAuthor Judy Blume says she worries about intolerance in the US, following the removal in schools of some of her novels. Blume’s bestselling 1970 novel Are You There God?
It’s Me Margaret has been adapted for the screen and is due to be released in May, starring Abby Ryder Fortson, Rachel McAdams and Kathy Bates.
The book, which still sells today, has always drawn controversy for its open discussion of dawning sexuality and religion. One of Blume’s other novels, Forever, was recently pulled from schools in Martin County district of Florida (along with titles by authors including James Patterson and Toni Morrison).
On Sunday Blume told the BBC in London that “banning books” has become political – “worse than it was in the 1980s.” She added: “I thought that was over frankly, I thought we had come through that, you know, not in every way, but I never expected us to be back where we were in the ’80s plus, much worse. “I came through the ’80s when book banning was really at its height.
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