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Judith Viorst 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 and the Alexander series of short picture books, which includes Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day , 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. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. February 1931
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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
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Famous Judith Viorst Quotes

“Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”

Judith Viorst

Source: Love & Guilt & The Meaning Of Life, Etc

“I think I'll move to Australia.”

Judith Viorst book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Source: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

“Some days are like that. Even in Australia.”

Judith Viorst book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Source: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

“I made him swear he'd always tell me nothing but the truth.
I promised him I never would resent it.
No matter how unbearable, how harsh, how cruel. How come
He thought I meant it?”

Judith Viorst

"Nothing but the Truth" http://books.google.com/books?id=uW5bAAAAMAAJ&q=%22I+made+him+swear+he%27d+always+tell+me+nothing+but+the+truth+I+promised+him+I+never+would+resent+it+No+matter+how+unbearable+how+harsh+how+cruel+How+come+He+thought+I+meant+it%22, How Did I Get to be Forty & Other Atrocities (1976)

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