Review: Sometimes You Have to Lie, New Biography about Harriet the Spy Author Louise Fitzhugh ’51
Painting class at Bard College, ca. 1949. Fred Segal ’49 paints an impression of Louise Fitzhugh ’51.
“In an expansive and revealing new biography, Sometimes You Have to Lie, Leslie Brody assembles the clues to the personal history that shaped Fitzhugh’s conscience and creative convictions,” writes Liesl Schillinger in the New York Times. “Brody, a biographer and playwright who adapted Harriet the Spy for the stage in 1988, has pored through correspondence, memoirs and court documents, and conducted dozens of interviews to reveal the trail that Fitzhugh left unmarked.”
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Post Date: 11-27-2020
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New York Times
Boston Globe
Wall Street Journal
Post Date: 11-27-2020