![]() She didn’t need the cash-a bequest from her wealthy grandmother had long since given her independence-but she had a restless creative spirit and a desire to achieve.īy good fortune, Fitzhugh’s précis came to the attention of Ursula Nordstrom, the head of Harper Books for Boys and Girls. Harriet’s creator, Louise Fitzhugh, had not wholly thought through her idea for a story about “a nasty little girl who keeps a notebook on all her friends.” It was 1963, and Fitzhugh (1928-74), an artist and writer, was casting about for a new way to make money pitching the synopsis of a children’s book seemed like a good idea. ![]() Welsch, one of the great 20th-century heroines of children’s fiction. From a few typewritten pages without illustration came 11-year-old Harriet M. Photo: Seal Pressįrom an acorn comes the oak. Louise Fitzhugh with her friend, photographer Gina Jackson, ca. ![]()
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