Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy

Reading Level
Grade 9
Time to Read
6 hrs 33 mins

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
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
Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy by Leslie Brody
Authors
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
Hardcover: 352 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.