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She also wrote about masturbation, premarital sex, divorce and death. In those books and letters, Blume not only addressed periods and puberty.

“I did not even know what menstruation was until I read your books.” “I found that Margaret’s problems were very like my own, for my mother is Buddhist and my father Christian,” says Kim, now 54, reading from her letter.

Kim first wrote to Blume when she was 9 after reading “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.” The controversial 1970 middle-grade novel about a teen with a Jewish father and a Christian mother has been adapted into a film that opens in theaters on Friday. When the parents of longtime pen pal Lorrie Kim were in Korea and couldn’t attend her graduation from Bryn Mawr College, Kim invited Blume, who attended with husband George Cooper. When kids felt alone, Blume was often there. “She saw a person who was hurting and didn’t give up on me.” “Judy was my last chance,” says Karen Chilstrom, who wrote to Blume about a brother who sexually abused her and died by suicide. Much of the focus of “Judy Blume Forever” is on the writer of beloved kids’ books such as “Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nothing” and “Superfudge” and the titillating adult novel “Wifey.” But the most moving moments are the interviews with Blume’s real-life pen pals, who share their letters and their stories. Blume appeared at Castro Theatre for the film fest’s 2012 screening of an adaptation of her novel “Tiger Eyes.” The JFI, which runs the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, has a long relationship with the author. Last week, the S.F.-based Jewish Film Institute previewed the film for members. The 95-minute film, directed by Davina Pardo and Leah Wolchok, is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video. Gladman was correct, and Blume called back to thank me.īlume is a mensch, which comes through in “Judy Blume Forever,” a new documentary about the 85-year-old Jewish author of 29 books for children and adults. I suggested Gladman, now a mental health rehabilitation center. She sought my help in tracking down the most likely hospital. In 1984, months after my article about Judy Blume appeared in the Oakland Tribune, the author phoned me.Īn Oakland girl who was hospitalized with mental health problems had written a disturbing letter to Blume, and the author was determined to reach her.