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Sometimes you have to lie the life and times of Louise Fitzhugh, renegade author of Harriet the spy

"The protagonist and anti-heroine of Louise Fitzhugh's masterpiece Harriet the Spy, first published first in 1964, continues to mesmerize generation after generation of readers. Harriet is an erratic, unsentimental, and endearing prototype--someone very like the woman who dreamed her up, author and...

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Main Author: Brody, Leslie, 1952- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Seal Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Fitzhugh, Louise.
Fitzhugh, Louise. > Harriet the spy.
Fitzhugh, Louise > Criticism and interpretation.
Authors, American > 20th century > Biography.
Lesbian authors > United States > Biography.
Artists > United States > Biography.
Illustrators > United States > Biography.
Biographies.
Literary criticism.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A nasty girl and horrid example
  • Part one. Prologue ; Classified ; Clear and present danger ; Interrogation ; Intelligence ; Best assets ; Master of disguise ; Private investigator
  • Part two. Clues ; Rout ; Snoop ; Detect ; Agency ; Agent Harrie ; Divided loyalties
  • Part three. Luck, speculation, windfalls ; Tradecraft ; Survey the locality ; Witness
  • Afterword.

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