Suddenly Sixty And Other Shocks Of Later Life »

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—Anthony and Nick (who are lawyers) and Alexander (who does community-development lending for a bank) and seven grandchildren—Miranda, Brandeis, Olivia, Nathaniel, Benjamin, Isaac, and Toby.

Every woman who has reached this decade -- any woman anywhere in the vicinity of sixty -- will find herself in the pages of this book. Offering plenty of laughs, a few tears, and cover-to-cover truths, here are verses that tickle and console, poems for everyone who would "rather say never say die than enough is enough."