It was adapted into a Broadway musical that Ran 600+ performances and won a Tony for Hinton Battle and for its choreography and featured DL fave Alfonso Roberto in the title role. Millsaps gained custody, and his parents raised Fitzhugh until she was five.
Fitzhugh was the only child of wealthy attorney Millsaps Fitzhugh and dancer Louise Perkins, who divorced when their daughter was a baby. She also wrote a stand-alone, Nobody’s Family Is Going to Change, about a muddle-class Black family. Childhood and Education Author and graphic artist Louise Fitzhugh was born October 5, 1928, in Memphis, Tennessee. The third book Firzhugh wrote about the friends is Sport-unfortunately it was published after Fitzhugh died and needed more work. It’s not as perfect as HTS (no Ole Golly), but really interesting, especially for adult readers. Oh yes, Janie makes an appearance and the three girls discuss menstruation (BE has her first period). There’s a subplot involving a southern white trash family of evangelicals whose presence raises complex questions about religion and faith (the book reminds you Fitzhugh was raised in the South).
Beth Ellen develops a crush on an obvious (yo adults) closeted gay lounge pianist. It’s set in the summer in a resort town (Water Mill) and focuses in Beth Ellen’s reunion with her shallow, absent mother Zeeney and her husband Wallace (they evoke a latter-day Zelda and Scott, but without any talent or interests. The sequel to HTS, “The Long Secret,” is in some ways just as interesting-and a tougher feat, as it focuses more on Beth Ellen Hansen, the mousy co-editor with Harriet of the Gregory School newspaper. Louise Fitzhugh (Octo November 19, 1974) was an American writer and illustrator of childrens books, known best for the novel Harriet the Spy and its sequels, The Long Secret and Sport.
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