I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.

But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.

I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.

It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.

When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.

I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.

I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.