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Born on October 5, 1928 in Memphis, Tennessee, Louise Fitzhugh first started writing when she was eleven. She did not have a particularly happy childhood, and couldn't wait to leave home. Her parents divorced when she was two, and she was raised in her father's home and at Miss Hutchinson's school. She attended several colleges and studied painting at the Art Students League and Cooper Union. Her most well-known book, Harriet the Spy (Harper & Row, 1964), was made into a movie a few years ago, creating renewed interest in her books. When Harriet was first published, it set up a whirlwind of controversy about realism in children's books, something that wasn't much seen at that time. Louise Fitzhugh died of an aneurysm in November of 1974. She won an Emmy award in 1979 for The Tap Dance Kid, which was based on her book, Nobody's Family is Going to Change.
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