PositiveThe Women\'s Review of Books... the reader has little access to Fitzhugh’s voice, her observations about others, or her private thoughts ... it is hard to ascertain the truth about this family ... refusing to wear women’s clothes was not androgynous in the 1950s and 1960s: it was a self- conscious attempt to present as masculine, something Brody seems not to know what to do with. Similarly, Brody presents Fitzhugh as having intense political convictions but no commitments ... Generations of Harriet M. Welsch fans will, and should, buy this book to learn more about how this classic of children’s literature was born in a queer bohemia. Even given what Brody has accomplished, I’m quite sure that there is more to know about Louise Fitzhugh. I can’t help but hope that there is a third biographer out there, perhaps still scribbling in her notebook in jeans, sneakers, and a hoodie, who will dig even deeper.
