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I was hired to write an adaptation of Harriet the Spy for the Minneapolis Children’s Theatre company.

I wouldn’t even hear about Harriet and Louise until working as a playwright in Minneapolis twenty years later. When the book was published in 1964, I really wasn’t reading kids books anymore and missed the wave.

I was born in the Bronx and although Harriet lived in an elite quarter of Manhattan, we still shared lots of the same cultural references around New York City in the 50’s and 60’s. Leslie Brody: I am exactly the same age as Harriet the Spy, that is to say in 1963 when Harriet was 11 years old, so was I.