![]() ![]() Leslie Brody writes in Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh (2020), “Mr. Sheridan, who regards his children’s interests and desires as bordering on ridiculous. Neither of these ambitions go over well with the parents, especially Mr. She knows she wants to grow up to be a lawyer like her stuffy, rather rigid father her little brother Willie, age seven, wants to be a Broadway dancer. The story centers on eleven-year-old Emancipation Sheridan, Emma for short. But at the time, Louise Fitzhugh’s novel seemed a bold and fresh stereotype-busting story dealing with race and gender.Įmma wants to be a lawyer, Willie wants to dance ![]() Today, with many more Black authors in the Middle Grade space, it’s unlikely that a white author would undertake such a foray into the life of an upper-middle-class African-American family. The acclaimed author of Harriet the Spy was said to be distraught over mixed reviews of the book, and died at the age of forty-six, not long after its publication. ![]() Nobody’s Family is Going to Change (1974) was the last book by Louise Fitzhugh to be published, just before her untimely death. ![]()
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