Sometimes You Have to Lie

Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy.

In this inspiring biography, learn the true story of spy writer Harriet Louise Fitzhue and learn about the woman behind one of the most beloved heroines of literature.

Harriet’s Spy, first published in 1964, has fascinated generations of readers and launched a million diaries. His favorite antihero, Harriet, is fickle, unsentimental and cute – very much like the woman who created her, Louise Fitzhue.

Born in 1928, Fitzhue grew up in an isolated Memphis, but she soon escaped from a closed world and headed to New York, where her vast environment stretched from the lesbian bars of Greenwich Village to the art world of postwar Europe, and her circle of friends included avant-garde artists such as Maurice Sendak and Lorraine Hansberry. Fitzhuw’s novels, written in an era of political disobedience, are full of resistance: authority, conformism and even – radically for a child author – pretense.

As a children’s writer and lesbian, Fitzhuy was often forced to hide his true nature. “Sometimes you have to lie” tells the story of her hidden life and the creation of her masterpiece, which remains long after her death as evidence of the complex relationship between truth, secrecy, and individualism.

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