Louise Fitzhugh

Louise Perkins Fitzhugh was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. Fitzhugh is best known for her 1964 novel Harriet the Spy, a fiction work about an adolescent girl's predisposition with a journal covering the foibles of her friends, her classmates, and the strangers she is captivated by. The novel was later adapted into a live action film in 1996. The sequel novel, The Long Secret, was published in 1965, and its follow-up book, Sport, was published posthumously in 1979. Fitzhugh also wrote Nobody's Family Is Going to Change, which was later adapted into a short film and a play.

5 October 1928

Born on the same birth day (5 October): Adrian Smith (basketball) • Bil Keane • Carlo Mastrangelo • Fredrik Olausson • Fritz Fischer (medical doctor) • Giuseppe Gazzaniga • Harold Faltermeyer • Irish republicanism • James Rizzi • John Hoyt • Korina Sanchez • Mark Geragos • Mehmet Ali Aybar • Michael Morpurgo • Rani Durgavati • Reinhard Selten • Tanner Roark • Terry Trotter • Tonia Antoniazzi • Walter Dale Miller

Born in the same month (October 1928): Al Held • Alvin Toffler • Andrew Sarris • Anthony Franciosa • Bill Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank • Clare Fischer • Frank E. Resnik • George Bullard (baseball) • George Peppard • Jeanne Cooper • Lou Scheimer • Neil Harvey • Peter Naur • Sheila Walsh (novelist)