Analysis of poems
- Anti-Heroine
- Fifteen, Maybe Sixteen Things To Worry About
- Happiness (Reconsidered)
- If I Were In Charge Of The World
- Learning
- Mother Doesn'T Want A Dog
- Remembrance Of Christmas Past
- Since Hanna Moved Away
- Some Advice From A Mother To Her Married Son
- Some Things Don'T Make Any Sense At All
Quotes
''The need to become a separate self is as urgent as the yearning to merge forever. And as long as we, not our mother, initiate parting, and as long as our mother remains reliably there, it seems possible to risk, and even to revel in, standing alone.''
All quotationsBiography
an American author, newspaper journalist, and psychoanalysis researcher. She is perhaps best known for her children's literature, such as The Tenth Good Thing About Barney (about the death of a pet) and the Alexander series of short picture books.
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, and after six years of study at Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, she became a research graduate there.
Personal Life
Viorst lives in Washington, DC, with her husband, political writer Milton Viorst. They have three grown sons: Anthony Jacob Viorst, an attorney practicing in the Denver, Colorado area; Nicholas Nathan "Nick" Viorst, an Assistant District Attorney for New York County, and Alexander Noah Viorst.
She received the Foremother Award for lifetime achievements from the National Research Center for Women & Families in 2011.
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