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Barbara Wersba

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August 19, 1932

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February 18, 2018

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Barbara Wersba was born in Chicago, moved to California, and then to New York City. She attended Bard College, and after graduating returned to Greenwich Village to study acting with Paul Mann. She received an honorary doctorate from Bard. In 1994, Wersba founded The Bookman Press, a small-press publishing company. She lives in Sag Harbor, New York.

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	Walter: The Story of a Rat by Barbara Wersba, Donna Diamond (Illustrator) 4.40 avg rating — 398 ratings — published 2005 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tunes for a Small Harmonica 4.09 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1976 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Whistle Me Home 3.28 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fat: A Love Story 3.25 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1987 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dream Watcher 3.98 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1968 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beautiful Losers 3.96 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1988 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Run Softly, Go Fast 3.96 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1972 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best Place to Live Is the Ceiling 3.92 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love Is the Crooked Thing really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1987 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Just Be Gorgeous 3.80 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1988 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“To put it bluntly, how could she not have known that rats are more magnificent?”
― Barbara Wersba, Walter: The Story of a Rat

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“Suddenly, Walter was aware of all the things he did not know. There were hundreds--thousands--of books in the world, and he had read only a handful of them. One day he would die, a myriad of books unread, his knowledge of the world incomplete.”
― Barbara Wersba, Walter: The Story of a Rat

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“Then there was the matter of her clothes, for which five closets had been built in the apartment. Her Manhattan clothes were bought at Bergdorf Goodman, and her Southampton clothes came from Abercrombie & Fitch. Her Europe clothes were purchased at Saks Fifth Avenue, while her shoes and bags came from Lord & Taylor. I forget where her nightgowns and slips descended from, but I have the odd impression that they were made by a cloistered order of nuns. In Belgium.”
― Barbara Wersba, Tunes for a Small Harmonica

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