![]() Moving to New York City, she began drawing and painting. This marked the end of her association with the South, as she became politically liberal, anti-racist, and began to discover herself as a lesbian she saw these as incompatible with her Southern identity and trained herself to speak with a Northern accent.įitzhugh studied literature, child psychology, and art, apparently never completing a degree. After high school she attended several Southern colleges, then transferred to Bard College in New York State. This insight became a major source for her art. ![]() ![]() Her childhood and youth appears to have been normally happy, but her forced separation from her mother, whom she was barely allowed to see, and the beliefs of her distant father, step-mother and grand-parents, left her with a deep understanding of children’s psyches and the disjuncture between what they truly need and what adults think is best for them. ![]() Her parents divorced when she was an infant, and her father was awarded custody, although Fitzhugh lived with his parents until he remarried. Louise Fitzhugh was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1928, the daughter of an upper-crust father and a working class mother. ![]()
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