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Brody does a good job at bringing to life the creator of ‘Harriet the Spy’ and the author of the books that Harriet inhabited. She also recreates the various milieus that shaped Louise Fitzhugh: the outwardly genteel, inwardly vicious South of the 1930s and 1940s; the bohemian, experimentalist years in New York City and Paris; and the more settled, creative environment of Connecticut and Long Island. Despite her success in art and children’s literature, the Fitzhugh that emerges is a woman never quite comfortable in her own skin: diffident, slightly paranoid, an out lesbian who lived with partners mostly in the closet, and a creative who perhaps never quite lived up to her own expectations. Nevertheless, in her friends and her readers she stimulated intense loyalty and pride in her accomplishments. Brody is not a historian, so if her contextualization of Fitzhugh’s life and work is a little light for my taste, still she cannot be faulted for the extensive research she put into her research.