![]() ![]() Louise’s father, Millsaps Fitzhugh, was a prominent lawyer who told Louise that her mother, Mary Louise Perkins, a ballet teacher from Clarksdale, Miss., died when Louise was a baby. Photograph by Hans Knopf, Courtesy of Bard College Archives The “Harriet the Spy” author spent the next decade making love and art in NYC and Europe. A young Louise Fitzhugh sits for a painting around 1949 at Bard College, where she studied writing. Her stepmother, Sally, was pretty cool, but Louise would never admit it. Her grandmother, Josephine Fitzhugh, was - according to Louise - “a musical millionaire who threw money out the window for the birds, while servants stood below to catch the cash in baskets.” Her crazy uncle Gus lived in the attic and cut up dolls. Louise Fitzhugh was born in Memphis in 1928 to a prominent, eccentric Southern family. With the publication of the book, “ Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy” (Seal Press), out now, author Leslie Brody is finally revealing the truth. She wrote few books before her death in 1974, at the young age of 46, and her last romantic partner took pains to keep as much of Louise’s salacious past - including her sexuality - under wraps. Photo by Lilyan Chauvin with permission of Julie Ann Johnson In 1951 Louise Fitzhugh moved to Greenwich Village and fell in with an artistic lesbian crowd, including photographer Gina Jackson. ![]() She was a lesbian who dressed in tailored suits and capes and had multiple affairs with women and a few men. She was a pint-sized heiress with a dysfunctional Southern family. According to a new biography, Fitzhugh led a secret life that would have thrilled her nosy heroine. It’s a motto that “Harriet the Spy” author Louise Fitzhugh could have called her own. Her main takeaway is that “sometimes you have to lie” to keep people from hating you. In the end, her clever takedowns land her a blockbuster gossip column in the school newspaper. She’s also not very nice: She throws tantrums, hides a frog in her frenemy’s desk and refuses to apologize when her classmates discover the disparaging dossiers she’s written on them. She’s mostly a gossipmonger, obsessed with chronicling the people around her and figuring out what makes them tick. Welsch does not solve mysteries, like that goody-two-shoes gumshoe Nancy Drew. She snoops on her neighbors - sneaking into dumbwaiters and scaling the roofs of apartment buildings - while jotting down shockingly frank observations, like “DOES HIS MOTHER HATE HIM? IF I HAD HIM I’D HATE HIM.” The 11-year-old heroine of the 1964 classic “ Harriet the Spy” is a street-smart tomboy who galumphs around her Upper East Side neighborhood in ratty jeans and a hoodie. Story of trailblazing 1920s NYC female police officer finally told New book explains how to ‘woke-proof’ your life with these simple stepsīest-selling crime novelist shares footage of terrifying real-life raid on $2.8M home This made me laugh.‘Blind Side’ author jokes about Michael Oher’s college grades in resurfaced video: ‘Says a lot’ T really enjoyed it and told me, “The beautiful orangutans were funny and I liked the flowers in their hair. This is a lovely, fairly lengthy picture book which makes for a fun bedtime read with children 4 and up. A word of warning – if you commit to a voice for Tiger at the start, make sure you can keep it up as he had a lot to say! We also really enjoyed the vibrant, detailed illustrations which have a funny style and cute factor all of their own. There is lots of lovely language that flows gently through this chatty tale, with humour and cuteness intertwined well. I suppose the highest compliment I can pay this book is that you would never know it is a translation of a Polish text. To find out exactly what he gets up to, you’ll need to get yourself a copy of this wonderful book! ![]() Whilst he does eventually confess to the occasional bite (done with love), it’s what Tiger reveals next that is really surprising! When the sun goes down, he uses his claws, teeth and stealth in all sorts of unexpected ways! It turns out that Tiger does an awful lot that has an impact on lots of animals in the jungle. He isn’t best pleased then with stories doing the rounds in the jungle that suggest he could be a deadly predator wild, dangerous and rather bitey! Turns out he sees himself as a pretty chilled, brave, friendly animal who enjoys a good wonder. Tiger is tickled awake by some beams of light as this book opens and immediately strikes up a conversation with the reader. Tonight T headed to his library pile and picked out what might be our first translated picturebook read – The Secret Life of a Tiger by Przemystaw Wechterowicz and Emilia Dziubak. ![]()
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