6 April 2020
If you happen to have been a teenage girl anytime in the last half-century, you likely need no introduction to Judy Blume. If you're woefully unacquainted, imagine a professional advice columnist crossed with the coolest sex-ed instructor you could imagine, and there you have it; generations of young women were introduced to sex, periods, masturbation, and countless other "grown-up" topics through Blume's YA novels.