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At 94, author and humorist Judith Viorst remains as feistily funny—and honest—as ever.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

But otherwise, only she has remained relatively unscathed, her popularity now expanded beyond her field as she feistily fends off Trump trolls on Twitter.

From Washington Post • Mar. 21, 2023

He too was sage-like, however feistily so, in his later years, an éminence grise who in 2017 was awarded the Kyoto Prize, the closest a musicologist can get to a Nobel.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2022

The household of his youth was liberal, Jewish, feistily intellectual and musical: His father was a lawyer and amateur violinist, and his mother was a former piano teacher.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2022

Less than five feet tall, she was feistily defiant.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 14, 2018