Judith Viorst
Award-Winning Journalist & Author
Throughout her illustrious career, award-winning journalist and author Judith Viorst's works have been revered by adults and children alike. She has authored eight collections of poetry, including How Did I Get to be 40...and Other Atrocities, Forever Fifty and Other Negotiations, as well as five non-fiction titles. Her poetry has been read in performance by Anne Bancroft, Alfred Lunt, Anne Jackson, Lynne Fontaine, and Eli Wallach. Her non-fiction classic Necessary Losses, appeared on The New York Times best-seller list for nearly two years.
Her most recent book for adults, Grown-Up Marriage, blends interviews with married women and men, the findings of couples therapists, the truths found in literature and movies and bemused exploration of her own marriage. In addition she wrote a column in Redbook for over twenty-five years and is a regular contributor to The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Viorst has also authored 17 children's books, including the award-winning classic Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Several of her books have been adapted for stage and screen. Her musical, Love & Shrimp, has been performed in Los Angeles and New York among other cities. Musical adaptations of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and Alexander, Who's Not Not Not Not Not Not Going to Move, both written by Viorst with music by Shelley Markham, were commissioned by and performed at the Kennedy Center and have traveled the theater circuit nationwide since.
At the podium, Viorst lectures widely on a variety of topics, ranging from loss and growth to children's literature and the subject of control.
AT A GLANCE: Judith Viorst was born and raised in New Jersey. She received a B.A. in history from Rutgers University, and in 1981, after six years of study, she graduated from the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. She currently resides in Washington, DC with her husband, Milton, who is the author of several critically acclaimed political books. They have three sons - Anthony, Nicholas, and Alexander - and seven grandchildren.
Interested in booking Judith Viorst to speak at your next event?
Her most recent book for adults, Grown-Up Marriage, blends interviews with married women and men, the findings of couples therapists, the truths found in literature and movies and bemused exploration of her own marriage. In addition she wrote a column in Redbook for over twenty-five years and is a regular contributor to The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Viorst has also authored 17 children's books, including the award-winning classic Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Several of her books have been adapted for stage and screen. Her musical, Love & Shrimp, has been performed in Los Angeles and New York among other cities. Musical adaptations of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and Alexander, Who's Not Not Not Not Not Not Going to Move, both written by Viorst with music by Shelley Markham, were commissioned by and performed at the Kennedy Center and have traveled the theater circuit nationwide since.
At the podium, Viorst lectures widely on a variety of topics, ranging from loss and growth to children's literature and the subject of control.
AT A GLANCE: Judith Viorst was born and raised in New Jersey. She received a B.A. in history from Rutgers University, and in 1981, after six years of study, she graduated from the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. She currently resides in Washington, DC with her husband, Milton, who is the author of several critically acclaimed political books. They have three sons - Anthony, Nicholas, and Alexander - and seven grandchildren.
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- For Peace of Mind, Resign as General Manager of the Universe
- Loves and Longings and Wicked Thoughts
- Necessary Losses
- Alexander and the Wonderful, Marvelous, Excellent, Terrific Ninety Days
