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Judy Blume is acold much than conscionable a children's publication author.
In the trailer for Prime Video's documentary Judy Blume Forever, premiering April 21, the generational interaction of the beloved writer—whose database of works includes Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret and Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing—is explored successful depth.
As it turns out, it all started with a elemental request.
"My girl said, ‘Mother, couldn't you constitute a publication astir teenagers who autumn successful emotion and bash it and cipher has to die?'" Judy says successful the trailer. "And I thought, ‘Yes!'"
Judy explains that her literary ability allowed her to explicit things that different proved elusive.
"I grew up arsenic a bully miss with a atrocious miss lurking inside," she reveals. "So by the clip I started to write, I truly had a batch to get out. I could beryllium fearless successful my penning successful a mode that possibly I wasn't ever successful my life."
The trailer features interviews with immoderate of Judy's astir celebrated fans, including Molly Ringwald, who says, "Everything I learned astir enactment oregon crushes, I learned from Judy."
Girls creator Lena Dunham expresses a akin sentiment, gushing, "She allowed young women to beryllium arsenic analyzable and messy and comic arsenic we are."
Over the people of her illustrious career, the present 85-year-old Judy received countless instrumentality letters from her legions of devoted fans—which she ever made a constituent to respond to.
"Kids opened up to maine successful a mode that they couldn't to their parents," she says. "And I would answer."
Judy's power has besides inspired an full caller procreation of authors, including Ghost writer Jason Reynolds.
"I don't deliberation that Judy Blume wrote her books to beryllium timeless," Jason says successful the trailer. "I deliberation she wrote her books to beryllium timely. And they were truthful timely that they became timeless."
Judy Blume Forever, produced by Imagine Documentaries, drops April 21 connected Prime Video.
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