Judith Viorst

Viorst in 2014 Judith Viorst (; née Stahl, February 2, 1931) is an American writer, newspaper journalist, and psychoanalysis researcher. She is known for her humorous observational poetry and for her children's literature. This includes ''The Tenth Good Thing About Barney'' (about the death of a pet) and the ''Alexander'' series of short picture books, which includes ''Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day'' (1972), which has sold over two million copies.

Viorst is a 1952 graduate of the Newark College of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. In 1968, Viorst signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. In the latter part of the 1970s, after two decades of writing for children and adults, she turned to the study of Freudian psychology. In 1981, she became a research graduate at Washington Psychoanalytic Institute after six years of study. Provided by Wikipedia
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  1. by Viorst, Judith
    Published 1995
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  2. by Viorst, Judith
    Published 2014
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  3. I'm too young to be seventy
    and other delusions
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    by Viorst, Judith
    Published 2005
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  4. by Viorst, Judith
    Published 2014
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  5. by Viorst, Judith
    Published 2010
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  6. Nearing ninety
    and other comedies of late life
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    by Viorst, Judith
    Published 2019
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  7. by Viorst, Judith
    Published 2001
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  8. by Viorst, Judith
    Published 1974
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  9. by Viorst, Judith
    Published 2000
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  10. If I were in charge of the world and other worries
    poems for children and their parents
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    by Viorst, Judith
    Published 1981
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  11. by Viorst, Judith
    Published 2008
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  12. by Viorst, Judith
    Published 1978
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  13. by Viorst, Judith
    Published 1972
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  14. by Viorst, Judith
    Published 2006
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