Judith Viorst

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Judith Viorst ( vee-ORST; née Stahl; born February 2, 1931) is an American writer. She has been called "housewife's poet laureate" for her humorous books of observational poetry, and is known for her popular children's books such as The Tenth Good Thing About Barney (1971) and Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (1972), which has sold more than four million copies. In the latter part of the 1970s, after two decades of writing for children and adults, Viorst turned to the study of Freudian psychology. In 1981, she became a research graduate at Washington Psychoanalytic Institute after six years of study.

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