Reading Level
What is the reading level of Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy?
Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy is 8th and 9th grade.
Expert Readability Tests for
Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy
| Readability Test | Reading Level |
|---|---|
| Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 8 |
| SMOG Index | Grade 11 |
| Coleman Liau Index | Grade 10 |
| Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 6 |
Reading Time
6 hrs 33 mins
How long to read Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy?
The estimated word count of Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy is 98,115 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 6 hrs 33 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 10 hrs 55 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 3 hrs 39 mins.
| Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy - 98,115 words | ||
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| Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
| Slow | 150 words/min | 10 hrs 55 mins |
| Average | 250 words/min | 6 hrs 33 mins |
| Fast | 450 words/min | 3 hrs 39 mins |
- Authors
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Leslie Brody
More about Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy
98,115 words
Word Count
for Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy
352 pages
Pages
10 hours and 33 minutes
Audiobook length
Description
In this inspiring biography, discover the true story of Harriet the Spy author Louise Fitzhugh -- and learn about the woman behind one of literature's most beloved heroines. Harriet the Spy, first published in 1964, has mesmerized generations of readers and launched a million diarists. Its beloved antiheroine, Harriet, is erratic, unsentimental, and endearing -- very much like the woman who created her, Louise Fitzhugh. Born in 1928, Fitzhugh was raised in segregated Memphis, but she soon escaped her cloistered world and headed for New York, where her expanded milieu stretched from the lesbian bars of Greenwich Village to the art world of postwar Europe, and her circle of friends included members of the avant-garde like Maurice Sendak and Lorraine Hansberry. Fitzhugh's novels, written in an era of political defiance, are full of resistance: to authority, to conformity, and even -- radically, for a children's author -- to make-believe. As a children's author and a lesbian, Fitzhugh was often pressured to disguise her true nature. Sometimes You Have to Lie tells the story of her hidden life and of the creation of her masterpiece, which remains long after her death as a testament to the complicated relationship between truth, secrecy, and individualism.