Blume spoke recently from a favorite refuge - its roof, looking out on a muggy morning over the island city. READ MORE: Judy Blume celebrates her 80th birthday at work in Key Westīooks & Books has become a Key West destination, like the former home of Ernest Hemingway. There’s also a new documentary, “Judy Blume Forever.” Premiering next week, it stars Abby Ryder Fortson as the preteen from New Jersey with a lot of questions about religion, boys and her own body. For the first time, one of her books has been adapted into a major Hollywood film: “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” is written and directed by Kelly Fremon Craig. Now 85, Blume has never been forgotten, but is currently enjoying renewed interest. “I remind them of their childhood,” she likes to say. She is also a literary celebrity of the rarest kind, who has not only sold millions of books, but also moved young readers so profoundly that, as adults, they approach her in tears and thank her. At Books & Books, the nonprofit store Judy Blume and her husband have run for the past seven years, you will find her own work in various sections: from general fiction, among the other “B”-named authors, to a shelf dedicated to her - a name unto herself.įor more than 50 years, Blume has been a proud member of the literary community.
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