Louise Fitzhugh

Louise Fitzhugh was an American writer and illustrator of children's books, best known for Harriet the Spy (1964), about a young girl who keeps a journal of the people around her. Its sequel, The Long Secret, followed in 1965, and Sport was published posthumously in 1979. Nobody's Family Is Going to Change was later adapted into a short film and a Broadway musical. Fitzhugh died in 1974 at age 46.