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Book review: Botetourt boxer Norvel Lee won landmark desegregation case


NORVEL. By Kenneth Conklin. Self published. 359 pages. $26.99.
Norvel Lee, a big man with a big heart, came out of the hills of northern Botetourt County to win a boxing match at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Finland, and a landmark desegregation case before the State Supreme Court.
Kenneth Conklin, a retired technology writer, also from Botetourt, tells Lee’s story in a fictional version of many events in the life of a man who proudly carried his African American heritage from a farm on Mill Creek near Gala to Howard University, the Army Air Corps, international boxing circles and civic leadership in the Washington area. ....

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Book Review: 'Sometimes You Have To Lie'


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Sometimes You Have To Lie by Leslie Brody.
on Feb 1, 2021
Sometimes you have to lie to get by a sticky situation, avoid hurting feelings, prevent harm. Indeed, as exemplified in “Sometimes You Have To Lie,” Leslie Brody’s biography of “The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, renegade author of ‘Harriet the Spy,’” lying is the mantra of Fitzhugh’s charming, feisty, groundbreaking 11-year-old Harriet.
Fitzhugh was a “renegade” because she went against the grain in writing about and illustrating an innovative children’s book about a precocious, spunky busybody kid from the Upper East Side who spies on people and records blunt and telling observations about them in her journal. The “Harriet” book (1964) and its sequels signaled a realist movement in children’s literature. Harriet took daredevil risks, saw a therapist, did things kids weren’t supposed to do, used adult language. She obviously caught on: by 2019 “Harriet the ....

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Book review: Fascinating biography examines author behind 'Harriet the Spy'


Reviewed by Michael L. Ramsey
Ramsey is president emeritus of the Roanoke Public Library Foundation.
SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO LIE: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet The Spy.
By Leslie Brody. Seal Press. 335 pages. $30.
If you were a teenage girl in the 1960s (and the following decades), it is likely that you read “Harriet the Spy,” a novel about a cheeky girl who embodied the spirit of female liberation that had been planted by women such as Betty Freidan and other societal trailblazers.
It was a coming-out novel for a generation of girls who would embrace women’s liberation. ....

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