Judy Blume: book banning now much worse in US than in 1980s

Children’s and young adult author of 1970 book Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret says growing intolerance must be challenged

The author Judy Blume says a rise in intolerance in America has led to a “much worse” epidemic of book banning than she experienced in the 1980s.

The children’s and young adult author, whose frank depictions of adolescence and puberty have long caused controversy, said it was time to fight back against censorship.

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