"I was born in 1932, to a father whose parents were Russian-Jewish, and to a mother who was a Kentucky Baptist. The only child of this stormy marriage, I grew up in almost total solitude. I thought I was lonely when I was simply a loner-- and spent...

Over a period spanning the better part of four decades, Barbara Wersba has written more than two dozen books, including several well-received novels for young adults that feature sensitive, artistic teens as protagonists and themes which advocate the...

Although more than half of her published works are for younger children, Barbara Wersba is best known as the author of young adult novels in which sensitive and artistic teen protagonists, alienated from their rather traditional middle-class parents,...