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- Louise Fitzhugh was born on October 5, 1928 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. She was a writer and director, known for Harriet the Spy (1996), Suzuki Beane (1962) and NBC Special Treat (1975). She died on November 19, 1974 in New Milford, Connecticut, USA.
- As a young woman she wrote a manuscript about a lesbian girl called "Amelia", based on her own teenager years and an affair with another girl, but the novel was later lost and never published. Her best-selling book "Harriet the Spy", about a tomboyish 11-year-old, met with controversy in the 1960s, prompting some schools to ban it from their libraries. "Harriet" is now regarded as a children's classic.
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