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Louise Fitzhugh


Born
in Memphis, Tennessee, The United States
October 05, 1928

Died
November 19, 1974

Genre
Children's Books


Louise Perkins Fitzhugh was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. Fitzhugh is best known for her 1964 novel Harriet the Spy, a fiction work about an adolescent girl's predisposition with a journal covering the foibles of her friends, her classmates, and the strangers she is captivated by. The novel was later adapted into a live action film in 1996. The sequel novel, The Long Secret, was published in 1965, and its follow-up book, Sport, was published posthumously in 1979. Fitzhugh also wrote Nobody's Family Is Going to Change, which was later adapted into a short film and a play. ...more

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Average rating: 3.94 · 107,703 ratings · 3,742 reviews · 23 distinct works • Similar authors
Harriet the Spy (Harriet th...
3.95 avg rating — 101,191 ratings — published 1964 — 123 editions
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The Long Secret (Harriet th...
3.80 avg rating — 3,105 ratings — published 1965 — 12 editions
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Sport (Harriet the Spy #3)
3.78 avg rating — 1,080 ratings — published 1980 — 20 editions
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Nobody's Family Is Going to...
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 387 ratings — published 1974 — 26 editions
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Bang, Bang, You're Dead
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3.71 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1969 — 8 editions
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I Am Three
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I Am Four
3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1986 — 3 editions
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I Am Five
2.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1978 — 2 editions
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I Know Everything About Joh...
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Harriet the Spy The Long Secret Sport
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“Don't mess with anybody on a Monday. It's a bad, bad day.”
― Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy
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“[Harriet] hated math. She hated math with every bone in her body. She spent so much time hating it that she never had time to do it.”
― Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy
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“Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.”
― Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy
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