Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

Monti: A Merry Little Tale of Sex and Violence (1994)
Imperfect Control: Our Lifelong Struggles With Power and Surrender (1998)
You're Officially a Grown-up: The Graduate's Guide to Freedom Responsibility Happiness and Personal Hygiene (1999)
Grown-Up Marriage: What We Know Wish We Had Known and Still Need to Know About Being Married (2003)


The age-related poetry series
It's Hard to Be Hip Over 30 & Other Tragedies of Married Life (1968) (Reprinted in 1999 by Persephone Books)
How Did I Get to Be 40 & Other Atrocities illustrated by John Alcorn (1976)
When Did I Stop Being 20 & Other Injustices: Selected Poems from Single to Mid-Life illustrated by John Alcorn (1987)
Forever 50 & Other Negotiations illustrated by John Alcorn (1989)
Suddenly 60 & Other Shocks of Later Life illustrated by Laurie Rosewald (2000)
I'm Too Young to Be 70 & Other Delusions illustrated by Laura Gibson (2005)
"Unexpectedly Eighty & Other Adaptations:: illustrated by Laura Gibson (2010)


"Lulu" Series
1. New York: Atheneum. Viorst is a 1952 graduate of the Newark College of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University in Newark New Jersey.

In the latter part of the 1970s after two decades of writing for children and adults Judith Viorst turned to the study of Freudian psychology. Judith Viorst (born February 3 1931) is an American author newspaper journalist and psychoanalysis researcher.