Джудит Виорст: Американский писатель и психолог

American writer

Judith Viorst (/v//i/'/ɔːr//s//t/; 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.

Among Viorst's books for children is the "Alexander" series (including Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day), whose narrator is a 5 year old boy who lives with his parents and two brothers, Anthony and Nick, who are named for Viorst's own three sons. Viorst's book Sad Underwear is a collection of poems that examines a wide variety of feelings and experiences from a child's point of view.

Viorst's books for adults include nonfiction psychology books such as Grown up Marriage, Imperfect Control, and Necessary Losses. She has written nine books of poetry including Unexpectedly Eighty and Other Adaptations, When Did I Stop Being Twenty and Other Injustices: Selected Poems from Single to Mid Life and People and other Aggravations. Viorst is also a newspaper columnist and has written frequently for The New York Times and The Washington Post, and has been a contributing editor to Redbook magazine. She also penned the musical Love & Shrimp with Shelly Markam. The Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati hosted a performance of Love & Shrimp, starring Deb Girdler, Pamela Myers and Shelley Bamberger, in the spring of 1999.

I'll Fix Anthony, illus. Arnold Lobel (1969), Harper & Row,
Try It Again, Sam: Safety When You Walk, illus. Paul Galdone (1970)
My Mama Says there Aren't any Zombies, Ghosts, Vampires, Creatures, Demons, Monsters, Fiends, Goblins, or Things, illus. Kay Chorao (1973)
The Tenth Good Thing About Barney, illus. Erik Blegvad (1987)
The Good bye Book, illus. Kay Chorao (1988)
Super Completely and Totally the Messiest, illus. Robin Preiss Glasser (2001)
Just in Case, illus. Diana Cain Bluthenthal (2006)
And Two Boys Booed, illus. Sophie Blackall (2014)

If I Were in Charge of the World and Other Worries: Poems for Children and their Parents, illus. Lynne Cherry (1981)
Sad Underwear and Other Complications: More Poems for Children and Their Parents, illus. Richard Hull (1995)

Lulu and the Brontosaurus, illus. Lane Smith (2010), Atheneum,
Lulu Walks the Dogs, illus. Lane Smith (2012), Atheneum,
Lulu's Mysterious Mission, illus. Kevin Cornell (2014), Atheneum,
Lulu Is Getting a Sister, illus. Kevin Cornell (2018), Atheneum,

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, a stage adaptation of the book, was performed at the B Street Theatre in 2004. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, live action film by Walt Disney Pictures, 2014. http://movies. disney. com/alexander and the terrible horrible no good very bad day/