CONTENTS

Introduction

1. Ruth Krauss’s Charmed Childhood

2. Becoming Crockett Johnson

3. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman

4. Punching the Clock and Turning Left

5. First Draft

6. Crockett and the Red Crayon

7. “We Met, and That Was It!”

8. Barnaby

9. A Good Man and His Good Wife

10. The Athens of South Norwalk

11. Art and Politics

12. At Home with Ruth and Dave

13. The Big World and the Little House

14. Artists Are to Watch

15. The Art of Collaboration

16. Harold

17. Striking Out into New Areas of Experimentation

18. New Adventures on Page and Screen

19. “Hitting on All 24 Cylinders”

20. Poet in the News, Cartoonist on TV

21. Lorca Variations and Harold’s ABC

22. Provocateur and Philosopher

23. Painting, Passports, and Protest

24. Theorems in Color, Poems on Stage

25. “You’re Only as Old as Other People Think You Are”

26. What Would Harold Do?

27. Life after Dave

28. Children Are to Love

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index