Leslie Brody

The protagonist and anti-heroine of Louise Fitzhugh's masterpiece Harriet the Spy, first published in 1964, continues to mesmerise generation after generation of readers. Harriet is an erratic, unsentimental, and endearing prototype—someone very like the woman who dreamed her up, author and artist Louise Fitzhugh. Born in 1928, Fitzhugh was raised in a wealthy home in segregated Memphis, and she escaped...