Sometimes You Have To Lie Av Leslie Brody

<DIV><DIV><B>In this inspiring biography, discover the true story of <I>Harriet the Spy</I> author Louise Fitzhugh -- and learn about the woman behind one of literature's most beloved heroines.</B></DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV><I>Harriet the Spy</I>, first published in 1964, has mesmerized generations of readers and launched a million diarists. Its beloved antiheroine, Harriet, is erratic, unsentimental, and endearing -- very much like the woman who created her, Louise Fitzhugh.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Born in 1928, Fitzhugh was raised in segregated Memphis, but she soon escaped her cloistered world and headed for New York, where her expanded milieu stretched from the lesbian bars of Greenwich Village to the art world of postwar Europe, and her circle of friends included members of the avant-garde like Maurice Sendak and Lorraine Hansberry. Fitzhugh's novels, written in an era of political defiance, are full of resistance: to authority, to conformity, and even

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