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Louise fitzhugh paintings6/7/2023 Welsch, who lives in a townhouse on East 87th Street and attends the tony Gregory School (based on the Dalton School). It tells the story of eleven-year-old Harriet M. Published in 1964, Harriet the Spy was an instant classic, selling 2.5 million copies in its first five years. She wrote to her lifelong friend the poet James Merrill to tell him about her new book project: “It is called Harriet the Spy and is about a nasty little girl who keeps a notebook on all her friends.” She’d recently illustrated the children’s book Suzuki Beane, a charming Beatnik spin on Eloise, written by her friend and sometime lover Sandra Scoppettone, and it was to children’s literature that Louise turned again. In 1963 thirty-four-year-old Louise Fitzhugh was fresh off a successful exhibition of her paintings and drawings at an Upper East Side gallery when she suddenly declared her fine art career a catastrophe. Louise Fitzhugh (right) with France Burke in the apartment they shared, New York City, 1955
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