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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Emily Dugan

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

Film cast and crew with Judy Blume
(L-R) actress Rachel McAdams, writer/director Kelly Fremon Craig, actor Abby Ryder Fortson and author Judy Blume at an advance screening of the film adaptation of Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret. Photograph: Rob O’Neal/Florida Keys News Bureau/AFP/Getty Images

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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