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2) Sometimes you have to lie: the life and times of Louise Fitzhugh, renegade author of Harriet the spy
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 335 pages, 7 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Louise Fitzhugh's books are full of resistance: to liars, to conformity, to authority, and even (radically, for a children's author) to make-believe. As a commercial children's author and lesbian, Fitzhugh often had to disguise the nature of her most intimate relationships. She lived her life as a dissenter--a friend to underdogs, outsiders, and artists--and her masterpiece remains long after her death to influence and provoke new generations of readers....