When Did I Stop Being Twenty and Other Injustices: Selected Poems from Single to Mid-Life

A republication of a best-selling poetry collection traces a period in the author's life during which she acclimates to a New York job, marries, and becomes a parent. By the author of Forever Fifty and Other Negotiations. 12,500 first printing.

Judith Viorst was born and brought up in New Jersey, graduated from Rutgers University, moved to Greenwich Village, and has lived in Washington, D.C., since 1960, when she married Milton Viorst, a political writer. They have three sons and seven grandchildren. Viorst writes in many different areas: science books, children’s picture books, adult fiction and nonfiction, poetry for children and adults, and three musicals, which are still performed on stages around the country. She is best known for her beloved picture book, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.