While her father was a wealthy man with an important position in state government, her childhood was not happy. As Ursula Nordstrom, former editorial director of Harper junior books, remembers, "There were many things in Louise's well-born southern upbringing and experiences that she did not like, including her horrified remembrance of teenage friends who, after a date, decided it would be fun to go down to 'coon town' and throw rocks at the heads of young Negro boys and girls. She got out of the South as soon as she could, came north, went to Bard College, and concentrated on losing every single trace of her southern accent--and prejudices."
Louise Fitzhugh attended numerous schools in addition to Bard, including Hutchison School and Southwestern College in Memphis, Florida Southern College in Lakeland, and the School of Education at New York University. She had many talents; throughout her life she played the flute and drew, and her interest in literature started at least as early as the age of eleven, when she first started to write. She majored in literature in college, but when her interest in art temporarily won out, she stopped her literary studies six months short of a degree.
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