![]() ![]() Harriet is fabulously “nasty!” She wears jeans, carries a tool belt on her waist and says “I’ll be damned if I’ll go to dancing school!” Harriet, notebook in hand, soon begins to “spy” on everyone – from her neighbors to her schoolmates.Īs Fitzhugh, who was queer, wrote to her friend, gay poet James Merrill, Harriet is a “nasty little girl who keeps a notebook on all her friends.” Her nanny, Ole Golly, tells her that writers take notes on people. Harriet, a sassy New York City kid, is a writer. ![]() ![]() I discovered “Harriet the Spy” only recently as I read “Sometimes You Have to Lie.” What a great find! Brody was hired in 1988 to write an adaptation of “Harriet the Spy” for the Minneapolis Children’s Theatre Company. “Harriet the Spy,” since its publication in 1964, has been enjoyed by generations of kids and adults. ![]()
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