Abraham Lincoln Brigades, 80, 119
Abstractions of Abstractions: Schematic Paintings Deriving from Axioms and Theorems of Geometry, from Pythagoras to Apollonius of Perga, and from Desargues and Kepler to the Twentieth Century, 231–32
Academy of Poets, 182
Adelson, Leone, 181
Advertising Age, 81
Ahlberg, Allan, 275
Ajay, Betty, 195
Albee, Edward, 201
Aleshire, Bunny, 157
Alger, Leclaire, 112
Alicante, 252
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 31, 251
Alien and Registration Act of 1940. See Smith Act
Alien and Sedition Acts, 108
Alswang, Ralph, 231
Altschul, Clara, 25
American Cancer Society, 135
American Cyanamid, 197
American Friends Service Committee, 162
American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), 178
American Library Association, 84
American Machinist, 33
American Mathematical Monthly, 238
American Society for Russian Relief, 88, 120
American Society of Magazine Cartoonists, 58, 63
American Statistical Association Bulletin, 81
Americans for Intellectual Freedom, 113
Anderson, Brad, 149
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, 94
“Andy Auto Body,” 205
Andy Griffith Show, 191
Annand, George, 45, 59–61, 97, 143, 191
Annotated Alice,The, 238
Apollinaire, Guillaume, 248
Archimedes, 251
Aristotle, 200
Arno, Peter, 58
Arp, Jean, 181
Art, 275
Art Directors Club, 165
Art News, 231
“Art of Poetry, The,” 183
Artists Against the Axis, 58
Artists Committee for the President’s Birthday, 76
Artists Guild, 165
Ashbery, John, 183, 199, 221, 237, 239
Assembly of Men and Women in the Arts Concerned with Vietnam, 219, 230
Astypalea (Greek island), 220
Athens, 220
Atlantic Monthly, 52, 115, 137
Atomic Energy Commission, 238
Austin Tudor, 149
Austria, 42
Authors Guild, 181
Averill, Esther, 184
Aviation, 33
“Aw, be a sport. Tell the newsreel audience you still have faith in the Lawd and good old Franklin D” (cartoon), 36
Azores, 251
Babes in Arms, 96
Backward Day, The, 121–22, 274
Bacon, Elizabeth “Betty” Morrow, 35–36
Bad Day at Riverbend, 275
“Ballad for Americans,” 80
Baltimore, 3, 4, 9–15, 26–28, 38, 93, 95, 120–21, 255, 258, 267
Baltimore Evening Sun, 74
Bank Street School, 110–11, 114–15, 122, 126, 210
Bank Street Writers Laboratory, 83–85, 95–96, 104, 110, 202
Bantam, 201
Baraka, Amiri, 248
Barcelona, 252
Bards’ Bugle, 191
Barnaby (cartoon), 251
Barnaby (character), 6, 60, 62, 74, 79–80, 91, 93, 98, 109, 114, 128–29, 156, 173, 178–79, 191, 216, 257
Barnaby (comic strip), 3, 6, 7, 32, 60–65, 67–68, 70–74, 77, 79–82, 86–87, 90–92, 97, 106, 108–9, 113–14, 117–18, 128–29, 135, 156, 158, 165, 184, 195–97, 199, 202–3, 225, 231–32, 257, 274–75, 286n
Barnaby (play), 104–5
Barnaby (screenplay), 117, 197
Barnaby and Mr. O’Malley (book), 73, 77
Barnaby and Mr. O’Malley (play), 79–81, 91–93, 95–96
Barnaby and Mr. O’Malley (television pilot), 148, 184, 191, 228
Barnhardt, Stephanie, 90
Barr, Alfred, 232
Barry, Philip, 46
Barry, Richard, 38
“Battle Hymn of the Republic, The,” 133
Bauhaus, 28
BBC–TV, 233
Bear Hunt, 275
Beautiful Day,A, 210, 223, 226, 241
Bechtel, Louise Seaman, 110, 115, 122, 142
Becker, May Lamberton, 97
Beckett, Samuel, 184
Beckwith, Ethel, 76
Bedtime for Frances, 173
Beginner Books, 184
Beim, Jerrold, 66
Beim, Lorraine, 66
Beistle, Mary Alice “Mell,” 182
Bemelmans, Ludwig, 178
Benedict, Ruth, 51–52, 64, 68, 111
Benedikt, Michael, 215, 221, 231
Benét, William Rose, 70
Beowulf, 249
Berkeley, Busby, 96
Bernard, Paul, 85–86
Berrigan, Ted, 215, 217, 221, 239
Biblical Squared Circles, 235
Big World and the Little House, The, 108, 111–12, 115, 194
Billy and the Unhappy Bull, 112
Black, Irma Simonton, 110
Blackfeet Indian Nation, 51–52, 100
Blackmer, J. A., 58
Blair, Mary, 110–11
Blake, William, 154
Blanc, Mel, 191
Blegvad, Erik, 203
Blondie, 65
Bloom County, 7
Bloor, Ella Reeve, 49
Blue Boy, 114
Blue Ribbon Puppies, The, 166, 173
Bodley Head, 234
Bontemps, Arna, 77
Book and Magazine Writers Union, 34–35
Book Week, 222–23
Booke, Sorrell, 228
Bookstore Press, 247, 249, 251
Borack, Barbara, 242
Borgman, Jim, 275
Bornschein, Franz C., 14, 26–27
Bosco, 193
Boston Globe, 248
Boston Phoenix, 248
Boswell, James, 270
Bouquet of Littles, A, 205, 211
Bourke-White, Margaret, 61
Boyle, Francis X. “Frank,” 216
Boyle, Kay, 125, 133, 147, 162, 170, 194, 204, 219, 229
Boy’s Life, 103
Bradbury, Ray, 219
Brager, Albert A. (RK’s stepfather), 31, 39
Brager, Blanche Krauss. See Krauss, Blanche
Brandman’s Paints, 238
Brando, Marlon, 135
Branley, Franklyn M., 158
Bransten, Richard, 56
Brecht, George, 237
Bridgeport, 238
Bridgeport Sunday Herald, 76
Bridgeport Sunday Post, 231
Brindze, Ruth, 65
Brooklyn College, 225
Brooks, Pat, 170
Brotherhood of Man, The, 93
Brown, Elsie R., 15
Brown, Jared, 105
Brown, John, 105
Brown, Marcia, 178
Brown, Margaret Wise, 90, 98, 111–12, 127–28, 139, 179, 203
Brown University, 129
Brown v. Board of Education, 161
Browne, Anthony, 275
Brown-Elliott Productions, 105
Bruges, 235
Brussels, 235
Buchman, Sidney, 117
Buckmaster, Henrietta, 91
Bucks County (Pennsylvania), 39–40
Budapest, 9
Budenz, Louis, 125
“Budgetism: Opiate of the Middle Class,” 158
Buell, Ellen Lewis, 80, 121, 130, 140, 151, 164, 211
Buffalo, 38
Bulletin of the Children’s Book Center, 140, 211, 223
Bundle Book, The, 116, 127–28, 274
Burg, Johanna (CJ’s grandmother), 16
Burg, Mary. See Leisk, Mary
Burg, William (CJ’s grandfather), 16
Burndy Engineering Company, 226
Burndy Library, 226–27
Burroughs, William S., 199, 201
Bus Transportation, 33
“But regimentation won’t hamper your individuality, Eustace; this Fascism racket will give real freedom to our artistic souls” (cartoon), 43
C, 215
Cadiz, 251
Café La MaMa, 221
Café Society, 80
Cage, John, 247
Caldecott Honor, 115, 137, 178
Caldecott Medal, 5, 122, 178, 213–14
Calder, Alexander, 79
Caldwell, Erskine, 61
Cale, John, 237
California, 37
Camp Walden, 15, 25–26, 121, 202
“Cancion Tonta,” 203
Canfield, Cass, Sr., 206
Caniff, Milt, 64
Cannes, 252
Cantilever Rainbow, The (book), 221–22
Cantilever Rainbow, The (play), 221, 223
capitalism, 45
Capp, Al, 7
Captain Kangaroo, 212–13
Carmen Jones, 93
Carr, Susan. See Hirschman, Susan
Carroll, Jim, 239
Carroll, Lewis, 31, 71, 98, 235, 251
Carrot Seed, The (book), 72, 78–80, 88, 98, 109, 127, 177, 194, 213
Carrot Seed, The (record), 121, 170
Cartoonists Guild, 46
Casablanca, 252
Casson, Mel, 58
Castles in the Sand, 222
Catholic Church, 80
Cavallon, Giorgio, 182
CBS, 191
Central Park, 10
Chagall, Marc, 79
Chalmers, Mary, 242
Chamberlain, Neville, 42, 49, 53, 76, 197
Charlip, Remy, 179–80, 210, 219, 223, 226, 233, 237, 241, 272
Charlotte and the White Horse, 143, 148, 154
Charlotte’s Web, 4
Chekhov, Anton, 179
Cherbourg, 235
Chicago, 32
Chicago Tribune, 74, 115, 154–55, 211
Child Study Association, 95
Children’s Book Week, 127, 145
children’s books, business, 4, 135, 206, 213, 246, 252, 266–67. See also individual titles or authors
China, 111
Chodorov, Edward, 91
Christian Science Monitor, 110, 142, 162, 203, 242, 252
Christianity, 236
Chukovsky, Kornei, 6
Churchill, Winston, 91
Chwast, Jacqueline, 165
Cinderella, 178
City College of New York, 247
Clay, Carolyn, 248
Cleveland, 38
Clifton, Lucile, 249
“Climb Up Mount Washington As Told to Me By Ham, The,” 26
Cobh (Ireland), 239
Codrescu, Andrei, 239
Cohasset, 198
Cold War, 91, 106, 113, 131, 216
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 23
Colorado, 71
Colored Comic Continuities, 59
Columbia Pictures, 92
Columbia University, 51, 63–64, 183, 282n
Comics, The, 96
Comics Journal, 275
Commonweal, 78
Commonwealth College, 49
Communist Party, 34, 36, 45, 47, 49, 91–92, 108–9, 113, 119, 125, 147, 152, 197
communists, 36, 43, 88, 91, 113, 125, 147, 236
Community Cooperative Nursery School, 133, 163
Cone, Claribel, 14
Cone, Etta, 14
Connecticut, 59–61, 68, 71, 79–80, 85–86, 92, 95, 101, 103, 133, 189, 191, 202, 220, 226, 238, 242, 273
Connecticut Feminists in the Arts, 249
Constable (UK publisher), 156, 176
“construction for a regular heptagon, A,” 246–47, 251–52, 254
Cook, Bernadine, 158
Copenhagen, 246
Corona (Queens), 17–20
Corso, Gregory, 199
Corwin, Norman, 79
Crichton, Kyle, 47
Crockett, Davy, 19
Crum, Bartley, 106
cummings, e.e., 221
Cundy, H. Martyn, 238
Curious George, 66
Curtis, Jackie, 194, 231, 255, 257
Curtis, Karen, 257
Curtis, Ken, 194
Czaderna, Bianca, 269–72
Czaderna, Joanna, 269–71
Dada, 222
Daily Worker, 35–36, 47, 91–92
Daladier, Édouard, 53
d’Allessio, Greg, 58
Danny and the Dinosaur, 4, 184
Darien, 59–61, 73, 80, 102–3, 140
David Copperfield, 13
Davis, Benjamin J., 88, 108, 119
Day the Cow Sneezed, The, 176
de Grummond, Lena Y., 228
de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection, 228
de Regniers, Beatrice Schenk, 181
de Saint-Exupery, Antoine, 213
Degnon, Michael, 18
Dehn, Adolf, 45, 104, 113, 225, 288n
Deitch, Zdenka, 251
Delos (Greek island), 220
Democratic Party, 43, 108, 152, 197
Denmark (Maine), 15, 25–26, 202
Dial, 201
Dibner, Bern, 227
Dick Prescott, 13
Dick Tracy, 65
Dicks, Barbara, 220
Dies Committee, 120
Discobolus, 114
Dixiecrats, 109
Donlon, Rae Emerson, 142
Dorn, Edward, 217
Dos Passos, John, 44
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 179
Dougal’s Wish, 112
Downtown Community School, 126
Draper, Muriel, 45
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 216
Druid Hill Park, 10–12
“Drunk Boat,” 183
Duchess County (New York), 39
Duck Amuck, 5
“Duet,” 204
Dukes of Hazzard, 228
Dwarf Long-Nose, 202
Dyer, Jane, 274
Eaton, Anne Thaxter, 110
Edelstein, Stewart, 273
“Egret, The,” 191
Ehrlich, Jon, 267
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 161
“Elegy in a Country Churchyard,” 170
Elementary English, 153
Ellen (character), 171, 173, 200, 205, 217
Ellen’s Lion, 16, 171, 173, 180–81, 184, 186, 200, 205, 210–11, 223, 274
Ellington, Duke, 44, 61, 64, 87
Eloise, 4
Elting, Mary. See Folsom, Mary Elting
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 23
Emperor’s Gifts, The, 213, 216, 222–23
End Jim Crow in Baseball Committee, 88
Engineering Research Associates, 74
England, 40–42, 156, 176, 213–14, 220, 233–35, 238, 246, 254
Erikson, Erik, 242
Ernst, Jimmy, 71, 194, 195, 231
Eulard, Paul, 196
Evergreen Review, 199
Everything Under a Mushroom, 252
Eyes, Nose, Fingers, Toes, 203, 206, 215, 274
Fabulous Firework Family, The, 176
Fairfield, 273
Fala (FDR’s dog), 76–77
Family Circus, 7
“Fantastic Companions,” 148
Fast, Howard, 79, 87, 91, 106, 120
“Faust,” 239
Fawcett, 201
FBI, 3–4, 106, 108, 119–20, 125, 131–33, 145–48, 152
Fearing, Kenneth, 44
Feiffer, Jules, 135–37, 182, 195, 229
Feiwel, Jean, 266
Fellig, Arthur, 61
Felsenstal, Peter, 249
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 219, 221, 223–25, 241
Ferrer, Jose, 91
Ferro, Matilda, 79
Fiedler, Leslie, 220
Fight Against War and Fascism, 44
Filene’s, 32
Film Designers, 193
Finders Keepers, 122
Finland, 239
Fire Cat, The, 184
First Story, The, 112
Fischer, Marjorie, 94
Fisher, Charles, 129
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 18
Flushing (Queens), 32–33
Fluxus, 237
“Follow the Leader” (cartoon), 58–59
Folsom, Franklin “Dank,” 35, 181, 229
Folsom, Mary Elting, 4, 35, 126, 181–82, 229
For the People’s Health, 87–88
Ford, 56
Ford, Charles Henri, 237
Ford, James W., 45
Forsythe, Robert. See Crichton, Kyle
Foster, Constance J., 65–66
Foster, William Z., 119
Franckenstein, Joseph, 133, 145
Frank, Bonnie (CJ’s niece), 157
Frank, Else (CJ’s sister), 16–17, 19, 145
Frank, Harold (CJ’s nephew), 145, 157, 210
Frank, Leonard (CJ’s brother-in-law), 145
Frank Morgan Show, 81
Frank, Tony (CJ’s nephew), 157, 210
Frankfurt, 9
Frasconi, Antonio, 193, 210, 217, 219, 221, 225
Frasconi, Pablo, 210, 225, 261
Fraser, Betty, 222
Freeman, Don, 61
Free Speech Movement (Berkeley), 217
Friedman, Charles, 92–93
Friend Is Someone Who Likes You, A, 165
Frost, Robert, 170
Frowning Prince, The, 168, 173–75
Gabriel over the White House, 43
Gainsborough, Thomas, 114
Gág, Wanda, 130
Galileo, 227
Galway, 239
Gardner, Martin, 238
Garelick, May, 181
Garlin, Sender, 36
Garment, Martin, 133
Garment, Sylvia, 133
Garnow, George, 227
Geisel, Theodor. See Seuss, Dr.
General Electric Theater, 191
“Geometrical Look at √π, A,” 235, 238, 257
Gerard, Lillian, 97
Gergely, Tibor, 110
Germany, 9, 16, 20–21, 35, 42, 45, 49, 52–53, 238
Gesell, Arnold, 122
Ghost World, 275
Giant Story, The, 181
Gibraltar, 252
Gifford, Joseph, 248
Ginsberg, Allen, 204, 209, 217, 219, 221, 237, 239
Gittelson, Frank, 27
Glengarriff, 246
Gluckman, Alex, 238
God and Freud, 176
Goddard, Jean-Luc, 280n
Gold, Harold, 145
Gold, Julius, 259
Golden Books. See Little Golden Books
Golden Ratio, 29
Goldsmith, Nancy, 99
Goldwater, Barry, 216–17
Gone with the Wind, 54
Good Companions, The, 40
Good Housekeeping, 168–69
Good Man and His Good Wife, A, 68–69, 72, 195, 197, 213, 235
Good, Ruth, 249
Goodman, Agnes “Aggie,” 85, 135, 176
Goodman, Calvin J., 238
Goodnight Moon, 203
Gordy and the Pirate and the Circus Ringmaster and the Knight and the Major League Manager and the Western Marshal and the Astronaut and a Remarkable Achievement, 217–18, 223
Gorey, Edward, 140
Goudy, Frederic, 33
Gould, Jack, 191
Graetz, Linda. See Hahn, Linda
Graham, Margaret Bloy, 184
Granville-Smith, Maureen. See O’Hara, Maureen
Graves, Robert, 236
Gray, John, 28
Great Depression, 31, 33–34, 38–40, 87, 96
Great Duffy, The, 82–85, 88–89, 94–95, 100, 109
Great Gatsby, The, 18
Greek Myths, The, 236
Greener Than You Tink, 96
Greenville (Delaware), 226
Greenwich Village, 31, 35, 38, 40, 54
Gregory, Helen, 260
Grey, Thomas, 170
Gropius, Walter, 28
Gropper, William, 44–45, 47, 56, 58, 77, 79, 91, 104, 229
Gross, Leonard, 176
Groth, John, 58
Growing Story, The, 85, 97–98, 109, 120, 194, 274
Guare, John, 248
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 219
Gulliver’s Travels, 31
Gurney, A. R., Jr., 248
Hagen, Dorothy, 206
Hahn, Betty, 226, 255, 257–58, 260, 267, 272
Hahn, Charles (RK’s uncle), 28
Hahn, Edna (RK’s aunt), 28
Hahn, Georgia, 120
Hahn, Linda (RK’s niece), 120, 210, 261
Hahn, Nancy (RK’s niece), 210
Hahn, Richard (RK’s cousin, a.k.a. Dick), 28, 120, 210, 226, 255, 257–58, 260, 261, 267, 272
Haiti, 113
Hall, Robert, 202
Hambidge, Jay, 29
Hamburg (Germany), 16
Hamilton, Tommy, 93–94
Hamish Hamilton (publisher), 176
Hancock, Irving, 13
Happy Day, The, 114–15, 175, 288n
“Happy Days Are Here Again,” 76
Harburg, E. Y., 79, 106, 196, 219
Hardware Poets Playhouse, 215
Harley, Margot, 193
Harold (character), 5, 19, 46, 67, 114, 144–45, 147, 149–56, 162, 164, 168–71, 173, 177–78, 184, 186, 197, 199–200, 204–6, 213, 222–23, 246, 257, 267–68, 275
“Harold and the Big Day,” 167–69
Harold and the Purple Crayon (book), 3, 4, 5, 8, 144–45, 147–53, 155–56, 164, 176, 213, 257, 275
Harold and the Purple Crayon (cartoon), 164, 197
Harold and the Purple Crayon (film), 5
Harold and the Purple Crayon (musical), 267–68
Harold and the Purple Crayon (TV series), 275
Harold and the Purple Crayon (play), 275
Harold at the North Pole, 163, 169, 180
Harold’s ABC, 196, 199–200, 204–5, 211–12
Harold’s Circus, 173
Harold’s Fairy Tale (book), 149, 155, 177, 185, 252, 254–55, 257
Harold’s Fairy Tale (cartoon), 251–52
Harold’s Trip to the Sky, 156, 161–62, 164, 228
Harper & Brothers, 66, 68, 72, 95, 111–12, 122, 142, 145, 149, 157–58, 161, 164–66, 168, 170, 173, 175, 180, 184, 187, 200, 203, 206, 212–13, 216–17, 220–22, 230, 242, 246, 252, 259, 266, 288n
Harper & Row. See Harper & Brothers
HarperCollins. See Harper & Brothers
“HARRIET HERE IS PRACTICALLY AN AUTHORITY ON COMMUNISTS. SHE WRITES PIECES ABOUT THEM IN THE NEW YORKER” (cartoon), 35–36
Harris, Vince Crockett, 247
Harry and the Lady Next Door, 184
Hauff, Wilhelm, 202
Hausman, Gerard, 247, 249, 251
Hausman, Lorry, 247
Hayden, Joseph, 214
Hazard, Eleanor, 262–63
Heart’s Needle, 170
Hearst, William Randolph, 37, 74
Heinrich, Peggy, 249, 259, 264
Heins, Ethel, 212
Heller, Joseph, 219
Helsinki, 246
Hemingway, Ernest, 61
Henkes, Kevin, 6
Henry Schuman (publisher), 111
Hepburn, Katharine, 80
Heptagon from Its Seven Sides, 253, 257
Herald Tribune Children’s Spring Book Festival, 111
Here and Now Storybook, 5
Herriman, George, 7, 274, 284n
Hersey, John, 87
Hicks, Granville, 49
Hilberman, Dave, 193
Hilton, Conrad, 158
Hilton, Ned, 47
Hirsch, Blanche, 25
Hirschman, Susan Carr, 115, 154–56, 173, 180, 185, 199–200, 204, 213, 217, 264, 266, 288n
Hitler, Adolf, 42–43, 49, 53, 58, 66, 197
Hoff, Syd, 4, 45, 49, 58, 77, 184
Hoffman, Phyllis, 266
Hogarth, Bill, 231
Hole Is to Dig, A, 3–4, 25, 122–28, 130–31, 137–38, 143–44, 148, 155, 165–66, 170–71, 176, 179–80, 183, 189–90, 193–94, 205, 209, 213, 224, 272
“Hole Is What You Need This Book Like in Your Head, A,” 166
Holiday, Billie, 80
Holland, 238
Hollander, John, 237
Hollywood Ten, 120
Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 218, 222
Homer, 249
Hoover, Ellison, 63
Hoover, J. Edgar, 108, 119, 147–48
Horn Book, 110, 127, 130, 137, 151, 154–56, 212, 272
Horton Hears a Who!, 4
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 3–4, 113, 120, 125, 131
Howard, Richard, 222
Howard, Ronny, 191
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, 4
How to Make an Earthquake, 139, 141, 148, 153
HUAC. See House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Hughes, Langston, 4, 44, 87–88
Hungary, 9
Hurd, Thacher, 275
Huston, Walter, 43
“I AM A REAL RED!” (cartoon), 46
I, Claudius, 236
I. F. Stone’s Weekly, 143
I Like You, 165
I Want to Paint My Bathroom Blue, 138–39, 143, 162, 242
Ibiza, 251
IBM Research Division, 259
Ice Haven, 275
If Only, 239
If Only…: A Ruth Krauss Gala!, 239–40
I’ll Be You and You Be Me, 138, 142, 153, 157, 162, 179, 269–70
“Imitation,” 205
“In Flanders Fields,” 23
In Henry’s Backyard: The Races of Mankind, 111
In the Night Kitchen, 178
Independent Committee of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions (ICAASP), 87, 91, 95, 113
Independent Voters Committee of the Arts and Sciences for Roosevelt (IVCASR), 76, 87
Indiana, 104
Ingersoll, Ralph, 61
Ingman, Bruce, 275
International News Service, 37
Intransit: The Andy Warhol Gerard Malanga Monster Issue, 237
J. Philip O’Hara (publisher), 228
Jackson, Kay Gauss, 198
Jaediker, Kermit, 61
James, Henry, 99
James, William, 99
Japan, 58
Jarrell, Randall, 170
Jewish School for the Blind, 133
Johnny Get Your Money’s Worth, 65
Johnson, Crockett. See Leisk, David Johnson
Johnson, Hugh, 37
Jones, Chuck, 5
Jones, Gordon, 206
Jonze, Spike, 5
Jordan, Alice M., 110
Josephson, Barney, 80, 92, 95–96
Joyce, William, 275
Judson Church, 226
Judson Poets’ Theater, 223, 241
Juggler of Our Lady, The, 195
Jumanji, 5
Jung, Carl, 164
“Just because your greedy workmen decide to go on strike I can’t have a new Mercedes. Somehow it doesn’t seem fair” (cartoon), 37
Juster, Norton, 195
Kanin, Michael, 80
Karl, Jean, 209
Kay, Helen, 4
Kazan, Elia, 93
Keane, Bil, 7
Keats, Ezra Jack, 231
Keller, Laurie, 6
Kellogg, Steven, 274
Kennedy, Caroline, 198
Kennedy, Jacqueline, 198
Kennedy, Joseph, Sr., 197
Kennedy, Robert F., 242
Kent, Rockwell, 44–45, 56, 70, 79, 88, 91, 104, 106, 132, 219
Kerensky, Alexander, 49
Kerrigan, J. M., 93
Khrushchev, Nikita, 194
Kieran, Margaret Ford, 137
Kimberly-Clark Corporation, 134–35
King Features, 61
King Jesus, 236
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 242
Kinkead, Katharine T., 154
Kirkus, 80, 94, 97, 127, 180, 194, 203, 222–23, 235, 263–64
Knoop, Johanna. See Burg, Johanna
Koch, Kenneth, 7, 183–84, 190–91, 196, 199, 204, 208–9, 221, 248, 251
Korean War, 182
Kramer, Esta, 261
Kramer, Hilton, 261
Kramer, Sidney, 266
Krauss, Blanche (RK’s mother), 3, 9, 31, 39, 42, 120, 130
Krauss, Carrie (RK’s aunt), 9, 39
Krauss, Elsie (RK’s grandmother), 9
Krauss, Julius Leopold (RK’s father), 9, 27
Krauss, Leopold (RK’s grandfather), 9, 11–13
Krauss, Ruth Ida:
aesthetics of, 28, 33, 148, 153, 155, 248
anthropology and, 51–54, 58, 63–64, 66, 69, 71, 93–94, 264, 282n
anti-racism of, 11, 52, 64, 66–67, 93–94, 102, 104, 120–21, 162, 182, 242
artistic ability of, 29–31, 124, 215, 229–30
athletics of, 12, 14, 25, 68, 154
birth of, 9
childhood of, 9–15, 25–27, 121, 266, 270
childlessness of, 97–98
childlike aspects retained by, 14
family background of, 9–10
fan mail received by, 155
finances of, 28, 31, 68, 72, 111, 116, 138–39, 166, 201, 238–39
health of, 11, 13, 51, 143, 214–15, 221, 234, 239, 242–43, 247, 252, 260–61, 270–71
library named for, 226
marriages of, 39–40, 58, 68, 263–64
meets CJ, 54
mentoring by, 7, 124, 179–80, 189, 202, 210, 251, 259, 261, 265–66
nicknames of, 25–26, 189, 200, 251
phobias and anxieties of, 12, 99, 101, 159–60, 221, 259, 263–64, 268
physical appearance, 4, 54, 158, 204, 249
political beliefs of, 11, 52, 64, 69, 79, 88, 93–94, 102, 104, 111, 120–21, 199, 219, 228–29, 241, 249, 264–65
pseudonyms used by, 39, 189, 200
psychoanalysis and, 159–60, 263–64
rapport with children, 5–6, 84, 97–98, 133, 140, 142, 148, 163, 220, 269
religious background of, 4, 10, 13, 42
residences of, 3, 9–10, 12–14, 28, 31, 38–40, 57, 59
sex and, 31, 158, 247–48, 251, 264, 267
sexism faced by, 15, 39, 58, 72, 104, 127, 181
surrogate parenting by, 124, 140, 223, 269
travels of, 40–42, 51–52, 95, 187, 202, 219–21, 234–35, 239, 241–42, 246, 251–52, 254, 258, 267
will of, 272–73
works of:
alternate titles for, 80, 114, 122, 126, 144, 166, 180, 182, 189, 203, 230, 274
anti-racist message in, 66–67, 162, 242
audience for, 66, 96, 142, 155, 162, 170, 181–83, 188, 194, 212, 221–22, 224–25, 235, 237, 241, 264–65
awards and honors, 80, 111, 226
childhood influences on, 25, 121, 229
children’s language in, 5–6, 26, 109, 117, 122, 126, 130–31, 142, 144, 148, 153–54, 188, 194
creative process, 5–6, 13, 72, 82–85, 98–100, 103, 116–17, 122, 124, 126, 140, 143–44, 160, 169–71, 188, 229–30, 248–49, 263, 272–73
illustration for her own work, 215, 239–40, 248–50
imagination in, 82, 89, 126, 131, 215, 228, 247–48, 275
innovation in, 115–17, 122–23, 126–28, 137, 140, 142–43, 153–54, 190, 247–48
moral themes in, 66–67, 69–70, 93–94, 111–12, 121, 126, 130, 137, 162, 199, 242, 265
plays, 210, 212, 215, 221, 223–24, 226, 230, 233, 237, 239–40, 248, 265
poetry, 38–40, 110, 154, 170, 183, 189–91, 195, 197, 199–201, 203–5, 210, 212, 215, 217, 221–23, 230, 233, 237, 239, 241, 247–48, 251–52, 265–66
promotional efforts for, 72, 212–13
sales of, 80, 127, 130, 138, 166, 170, 260, 274
stage performances of, 210, 212, 215, 221, 223, 226, 230, 239–40, 248, 265
translations and foreign editions, 120, 176, 238–39
unpublished, 69, 71, 90, 93–96, 99, 116, 162–63, 169–70, 239, 251–52, 264–65, 266, 270 See also specific titles
Kray, Betty, 182
Kreymborg, Alfred, 130
Kubrick, Stanley, 216, 234, 280n
“Kuku Karl and Hesa Nutt Visit the Museum” (cartoon), 19
Kulchur, 221
Kuper, Peter, 275
Kuskin, Karla, 252
La Guardia, Fiorello, 62
La Mama, 241
Ladies’ Home Journal, 200
Lahr, Bert, 191–92
Language Arts, 264
Larkin, Philip, 170
LaTouche, John, 80
Laurence, Paula, 71
Lausanne, 220
Lawson, John Howard, 79, 106, 113, 120
Lear, Norman, 228
Leask, David (CJ’s grandfather), 16
Leask, Jane (CJ’s grandmother), 16
Lehman, David, 190
Leighton, Al, 100
Leisk, Bert (CJ’s cousin), 21, 32
Leisk, David (CJ’s father), 16–17, 19, 157, 234
Leisk, David Johnson (aka Crockett Johnson):
aesthetics of, 7, 17, 24, 33, 44, 49, 68, 72–73, 149, 177–78, 185–87, 222, 238, 245–46
anti-racism of, 47, 54, 79, 88, 104, 119
artistic ability of, 19, 185, 238
athletics of, 4, 24, 33, 46, 158
birth of, 16
celebrity of, 72, 96, 123, 187–88, 226
childlessness of, 98
dogs owned by, 17, 35, 53, 102–3, 156, 191–92
family background of, 16–21
fan mail received by, 71, 129, 259
finances of, 32, 34, 44, 72, 81, 92, 147, 157, 204, 238–39
health of, 59, 210, 234, 242–43, 247, 252, 254, 255, 257
humor of, 19, 103, 135, 141, 158, 177, 220, 232–33, 238, 255
manner of speaking, 19
mathematics and, 23, 73–75, 235, 238–39, 241, 246–47, 251–52, 254, 257
meets RK, 54
mentoring by, 7, 124, 158, 180, 202, 210
nocturnal habits of, 67–68, 73, 101–2, 155
origins of name, 16, 19, 234, 278n
physical appearance, 4, 33, 54, 57, 149, 158, 179, 234, 249
political beliefs of, 18, 34–37, 43–44, 46–50, 54–56, 58–59, 63, 66, 76–77, 79, 86–88, 95, 103, 106, 108–9, 113, 117, 119, 161, 194, 197, 219, 229–30, 241
pseudonyms used by, 19, 21, 23, 37
religious background of, 4, 19
residences of, 3, 16–18, 20, 32–33, 35, 38, 57, 59
sailing and, 17, 68, 80, 155, 176, 179, 216
smoking and, 24, 67, 71, 143, 231, 254
surrogate parenting by, 124, 143–44, 223
travels of, 49, 95, 187, 202, 219–21, 234–35, 239, 241–42, 246, 251–52, 254
typography and, 24, 32–33, 73, 88, 176
works of:
advertising, 32–33, 56, 71, 134–35, 178, 193, 197, 256
alternate titles for, 180–81, 199
audience for, 62–65, 71, 74, 77–78, 180, 185–86, 189, 213
cartoons, 164, 193, 197, 245–46, 251–52
childhood influences on, 19, 149, 157, 189, 218
comics, 18–22, 35–37, 43, 46–49, 53–65, 67–68, 70–74, 77, 79–82, 86–87, 90–92, 103, 106, 108–9, 113–14, 128–29, 135–37, 282n, 286n
creative process, 19, 60, 67–68, 82, 98, 103, 140–41, 169, 173, 189, 237, 249
editor for, 33–34, 44–45, 49–50
editor for RK’s work, 78, 88, 124, 140
illustrations for others’ work, 47, 66, 72, 78, 88, 138–42, 158, 228
imagination in, 5, 21, 23–24, 46, 67, 114, 148–52, 169, 171, 184, 186, 275
influence of, 5, 7, 151–52, 275
innovation in, 73, 140, 142–43, 145, 160–62
inventions, 124, 129, 148–49, 155, 158, 180
mathematical formulae, 235, 238–39, 241, 246–47, 251–52, 254, 257, 260
moral themes in, 35–37, 43, 53–56, 58–59, 66, 75–76, 79, 161, 175–76, 213, 217–18
paintings, 224–28, 230–33, 235–38, 241–42, 246, 249, 253, 257, 259–62, 272
promotional efforts for, 71, 212–13
radio performances of, 81–82, 105
revisions of, 145, 154–55, 204–5
sales of, 5, 6, 130, 149, 164–65, 170, 180–81, 200
stage performances of, 79–81, 91–93, 95–96, 104–5
television adaptations of, 148, 228
translations and foreign editions, 156, 176, 238–39
unpublished, 91, 140–41 See also specific titles
Leisk, Else George. See Frank, Else George
Leisk, Mary (CJ’s mother), 16–17, 19–21, 130, 145, 157
Leningrad, 246
Lepape, Georges, 30
Lerner, Ethel, 102
Les Quatre Saisons, 100
Levack, Jane. See Leask, Jane
Levin, Peter, 215
Levine, Abe, 133, 135, 143, 210
Lewis and Conger, 77–78
Lewis, C. S., 4
Lewis, Oscar, 51
Libby, Margaret, 164
“Liberal at the Crossroads” (cartoon), 55–56
Library Is to Know, A, 165
Library Journal, 115, 164, 216, 222–23, 235, 237
Lichtenstein, Roy, 220
Lieberman, Robbie, 113
Life, 71
Life of Johnson, 270
Li’l Abner, 7
Lima, Frank, 205
Lincoln, Abraham, 23. See also Abraham Lincoln Brigades
Lindbergh, Charles, 33
Lindeberg, Linda, 182
Lindgren, Astrid, 4
Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, The, 4
Lionni, Leo, 4
Lion’s Own Story, The, 3, 200, 205, 211, 244
Lippincott, 201
Little Bear, 184
Little Boat Lighter Than a Cork, 221, 252, 260
Little Chicken, 90
Little Fish That Got Away, The, 158
Little, Florence, 94
Little Golden Books, 96, 110–11, 116, 124–25, 170, 198
Little King, The, 56
Little King, the Little Queen, the Little Monster, and Other Stories You Can Make Up Yourself, The, 215–16, 230
Little Lit, 275
Little Man with the Eyes, The, 54, 56–57, 59, 63, 282n
Little Nemo in Slumberland, 5, 178, 274
Little Prince, The, 213
Little Rock, 161
Littledale, Freya, 249, 259, 261
Littleplume, Louie, 52
Living Theatre, 205
Loebenstein, Ruth, 25
Long Island Sound, 17, 133, 216, 247, 257, 273
Loose Enders, 181–82
Lorca, Federico García, 197–98, 201, 203, 209
Lorenzo Jones, 79
Los Angeles Times, 211
Louisiana, 37
Love Labour’s Lost, 201
“Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” 205
Luden, Cynthia, 249
Lyrical Leftists, 130
Maas, Willard, 201, 204–5, 208, 217
MacDowell Colony, 258–59
Mack, Helen, 105
MacLeish, Archibald, 44
Macy’s, 32–33
Madeline’s Rescue, 178
Mademoiselle, 201
Magazine of Art, 72
Magic Beach, 184–86, 193, 203, 216, 222, 258
Magic Circle Press, 260
Magil, A. B., 47
Maher, Anna, 40
Mailman, Bruce, 248
Maine, 15, 25–26, 28, 202, 258
Majorca, 252
Malanga, Gerard, 183–84, 204–5, 217, 237, 239
Mallet, Elizabeth, 77
Mallory, Thomas, 185
Mama, I Wish I Was Snow—Child, You’d Be Very Cold, 203
Man Who Came to Dinner, The, 93
Marcantonio, Vito, 119
Marion, Dave, 153
Marks, Sherman, 191
Marlow, Marilyn, 203, 209, 221
Marmaduke, 149
Marshall Fields, 32
Marshall, James, 98
Martin, Leo, 165
Marvell, Andrew, 190
Marvin, Dwight, 129
Maryland Institute College of Art. See Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts
Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts, 9, 14, 28
Marx, Harpo, 237
Marxism, 246
Maslow, Abraham, 51
Massachusetts, 198, 242, 247, 251
Masters, Lillian, 104
Masters, Robert, 104
Mathematical Gazette, 238, 254
Matisse, Henri, 14
Maugham, W. Somerset, 79
Mauldin, Bill, 87
May, Andrew, 64
Mayer, Carrie (RK’s grandmother), 10, 277n
Mayer, Samuel (RK’s great uncle), 10, 277n
Mayles Textiles, 163
McBride (publisher), 35
McCardell, Claire, 30
McCarthy, Joseph, 119–20, 131–32, 145, 197
McCarthy, Mary, 113
McCloskey, Robert, 178
McCloud, Scott, 49
McCrae, John, 23
McDonnell, Patrick, 275
McGovern, Ann, 181
McGraw, James, 33
McGraw-Hill, 33–35
McKinney, Jim, 32
McKormick, Col. Robert, 74
McMahon, Alice, 60
McNally, Terrence, 248
Mead, Margaret, 7
Merck, 193
Merkin, Daphne 183
Merriam, Eve, 104
Merrill, James, 237
Merry Go Round, 160–61
Merton of the Movies, 100
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 58
Mexico, 95
Mexico City, 45
Mickenberg, Julia, 46, 130–31, 181–82
Miles, Betty, 194
Miller, Henry, 155
Millet, Genevieve “Gene,” 234
Milton, John, 23
Minarik, Else Homelund, 184, 214
Minestrone: A Ruth Krauss Selection, 264
Minton, Bruce. See Bransten, Richard
Missouri, 10
Miss Thomas’s School, 133
Mitchell, Lucy Sprague, 5, 83, 110, 126
Modern Library, 31
Mondrian, Piet, 187
Monhegan Island, 187
Montana, 51–52
Monte Carlo, 252
Montgomery Bus Boycott, 161
Montresor, Beni, 203
Moon or a Button, A, 4, 51, 148, 171–72, 179–82, 228
Moore, Ward, 96
Mordvinoff, Nicolas, 122
Morgan, Frank, 81
Morgan, J. P., 36
Morikawa, George, 231
Morley, Jack, 90, 97, 106, 286n
Morrison, Lillian, 222
Moss, Stanley, 182
“Mother Machree,” 21
Motherwell, Robert, 220
Mouly, Françoise, 275
Moustache Hat, 181
“Mr. Hearst says he’ll buy your farm articles if you’ll just change ‘Arkansas,’ ‘Louisiana,’‘California,’ and so on, to Soviet Russia” (cartoon), 37
Museum of Art, Science, and Industry, 238
Museum of Modern Art, 232, 238
“My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean,” 21
“My Dream with Its Solar-Pulse Gallop,” 205
“My Nightmare with Its Mother Just Off to the Left,” 261
“My Wife with the Woodfire Hair,” 261
Myron, 114
NAACP, 47
Nadada, 217
Nate’s and Leon’s Delicatessen, 120–21
Nation, The, 237
National Art Education Association, 228
National Citizens Political Action Committee, 95
National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax, 79
National Conference on Family Life, 104
National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, 119
National Defense Education Act, 182
National Library Week, 176
Navajo Door, The, 100
Nazarene Gospel Restored, The, 236
Nazareth, Ralph, 267
Nelson’s Lobster House, 193
New Haven Register, 187–89
New House in the Forest, The, 110
New Masses, 35–37, 43–50, 52–56, 66, 74, 79, 113, 119, 132, 225, 282n
New Orleans, 95
New School Poets, 205
New York City, 10, 16, 26, 28, 31–33, 40, 47, 52, 54, 58–59, 63, 67, 71, 79–80, 85, 88, 91–92, 95–96, 100–101, 108, 113, 126, 133, 193, 205, 210, 226, 230, 244, 251–52, 255, 259
New York Daily Mirror, 113
New York Daily News, 65
New York Herald Tribune, 97, 110, 115, 122, 142, 154, 164, 178
New York Journal-American, 74
New York Public Library, 115, 127–28, 216
New York Review of Books’ Children’s Books, 274
New York School, 183, 210, 222, 237
New York Times, 77, 80, 94, 96–97, 122, 127, 130, 140, 142, 149, 151, 154–55, 162, 164, 170, 180, 190–91, 194, 203, 211–12, 219, 222, 228, 231, 252, 257, 259, 263, 271
New York University, 33
New Yorker, 5, 80, 88, 140, 149, 154–55, 170, 176, 272, 274–75, 282n
Newbery Medal, 213
Newman, James R., 227–28
Newnham family, 41–42
“News,” 190
“News Item Chamberlain Warns Hitler” (cartoon), 49
Newsletters, 226
Newsweek, 71
Newton, Isaac, 241
“Newtown H.S.” (cartoon), 21, 218
Newtown High School, 19, 21, 23–24, 32, 45
Newtown High School Lantern, 18–23, 45
Niagara Falls Public Library, 177
Nico, 237
Night and Day, 90
Nilsson, Norma Jean, 81–82
Nixon, Richard M., 252
Nobel Prize, 77
Noonan, Julia, 274
Nordstrom, Ursula, 7, 66, 69, 71–72, 77, 83–84, 86, 90, 95–96, 100, 111, 112, 114–17, 120, 122–23, 126–28, 135, 138–39, 144–45, 147, 153–58, 163, 165–66, 169–71, 173, 176–77, 180, 182–87, 189, 192, 194–95, 199–201, 203–6, 209, 212–14, 218, 220–21, 227–28, 242, 246, 252, 258, 266
Norlyst Gallery, 71
North, Joseph, 229
Norwalk Hospital, 214, 255, 257
Norway, 239
Nutshell Library, The, 192, 209, 260
Oakland Tribune, 180
Ochs, Phil, 237
Odets, Clifford, 91
O’Doherty, Barbara Novak, 222
“Off Day, An” (cartoon), 20–21
Of Off Broadway Book, The, 248
Office of War Information, 62, 81
O’Hara, Frank, 7, 183, 190, 199, 201–2, 205, 215, 217, 229, 237, 239, 255
O’Hare, Kate Richards, 49
Olsen, Tillie, 219
Olson, Charles, 217
O’Malley, Mary E., 74
O’Malley, Mr. (character), 6–7, 32, 60–64, 70–71, 73–77, 79–81, 86–87, 92–93, 95, 97, 103, 106, 109, 114, 117, 120, 128–29, 148, 157, 191, 216, 228, 257, 275
“On Vietnam,” 228–29
O’Neill, Thomas P. “Tip,” 61
One Two Three … Infnity, 227
Ontario, 177
Open House for Butterflies, 9, 25, 144, 180, 182, 189–90, 194, 205, 228
Orkney Islands, 234
Oxenbury, Helen, 274
Padgett, Ron, 183
Pal, George, 79
Palestine, 103
Palmer, Lois, 127, 130, 142, 154, 162
Parade, 198
Parents, 234
Paris, 31, 33, 81, 112, 220, 235
Parker, Dorothy, 6, 61, 64, 70–71, 79
Parry, Maggie, 51–52
Parsons, Art, 165
Parsons, Frank, 28
Pasternack, Barbara, 267
Patoruzu, 61
Peabody Conservatory, 14, 26–27
Pembroke College, 129
Pencil, The, 275
Pendulum Motion (Galileo), 227
Perelman, S. J., 80
Peterborough, 258
Phantom Tollbooth, The, 195
Philadelphia, 39
Philadelphia Inquirer, 129
Philadelphia Record, 91–92
Philadelphia Story, The, 46
Physicians Forum, 87–88
Picture for Harold’s Room,A (book), 151, 171, 186–87, 228, 246
Picture for Harold’s Room,A (cartoon), 245–46, 251
Pinter, Harold, 215
Pippi Longstocking, 4
Play I Play II Play III, 223
Playboy, 248
PM, 61–62, 65, 71–73, 90, 106, 125, 283n
Pocket Follies, 210
Pocket Theatre, 210
“Poem for the Depression,” 38–40
“Poet in the News,” 190–91
Poland, Albert, 248
Polar Express, The, 152
poll tax, 79
Pollock, Jackson, 5
Popular Front, 43, 46–47, 61, 79–80, 87, 91, 104, 113
Potter, Beatrix, 98
Powers, Ann, 145
Powers, Francis Gary, 194
Practical Mother’s Guide, 226
Price, Garrett, 58
Priestly, J. B., 40
“Primary Candidate Who Tried to Make a Mountain Out of a Mole-Hill, The” (cartoon), 47–49
Progressive Citizens of America (PCA), 95
Progressive Party, 108–9
Promenade Theatre, 268
Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem (Euclid), 224–25
Publishers Weekly, 228, 252, 260, 263–64
Puddn’head Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins, 103
Punch, 193
Punch Films, 193
Puppetoons, 79
Putnam’s, 223
Pythagoras, 225
Quadling, Douglas A., 254
Quebec, 196
Quinterno, Dante, 61
Rabe, David, 248
Races of Mankind, The, 64, 93, 111
racism, 11
“Radiogram, Mr. Morgan. The White House wants to know are you better off than you were last year?” (cartoon), 36
Random House, 184
Rank, J. Arthur, 165
Raskin, Ellen, 203
Razor’s Edge, The, 84
Reader’s Digest, 252
Reagan, Ronald, 191
Redder Than the Rose, 47
Redisol, 193
Reed, Lou, 237
Re-Examination of Freedom, 239
Reich, Eleanor, 122
Reinhardt, Ad, 7, 45, 58, 64, 69, 72, 195, 208, 219, 225, 229, 231, 235
Reinhardt, Anna, 235
Reinhardt, Rita, 235
Relativity in Time and Space (Einstein), 227
Renner, Paul, 73
Renoir, Auguste, 14
Republican Party, 59, 74, 76–77, 108–9, 216
Residu, 234
Rey, H. A., 66
Rey, Marg ret, 66
Reykjavik, 246
Rhodes (Greek island), 220
Richter, Dan, 60, 84, 234–35, 270
Richter, Jill, 234
Richter, Mischa, 7, 43, 45, 56, 60, 88, 95, 103–4, 133, 234, 282n
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 170
Rimbaud, Arthur, 196
Ring, Elizabeth. See Hennefrund, Bet
Ripley’s Believe It or Not, 59
RKO, 92
Robbins, Jerome, 91
Robinson, Boardman, 79
Robinson, Earl, 79
Rodin, Auguste, 114
Rome, Harold J., 79
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 61
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 36, 47, 56, 61, 76–77, 87, 92, 103
Rosenfeld, Blanche. See Krauss, Blanche
Rosenfeld, Carrie (RK’s grandmother), 28
Rosenfeld, Henry (RK’s grandfather), 10
Rosswaag, Adolph (CJ’s father-in-law), 35
Rosswaag, Charlotte (CJ’s first wife), 35, 38, 50
Rosswaag, Veronica (CJ’s mother-in-law), 35
Rouquier, Georges, 100
Row, Peterson, and Company, 206
Rowand, Phyllis, 85, 97, 100, 104–5, 109–10, 116, 135, 143, 162–64, 176, 210, 214, 266
Rowayton, 3, 80, 85, 96, 99, 101, 122–23, 132–33, 176, 178, 208, 210, 212, 220, 236, 242, 244, 246–47, 269
Rowayton Arts Center, 193–94
Rowayton Kindergarten, 122, 148, 163
Rowayton Library, 176
Rukeyser, Muriel, 219
Rumin, Sidney, 105
Runaway Bunny, The, 90
Running Jumping ABC, 239, 252, 266
Runyon, Damon, 216
Russell, Mary, 164
Ruth Krauss Library, 226
Salinger, J. D., 215
San Diego State College, 247
San Francisco Chronicle, 94, 115, 130
Santorini (Greek island), 220
Saratoga Springs, 259
Sattler, Warren, 196
Savo, Mario, 217
Sayers, Frances Clarke, 127
Scarborough, 246
Scarry, Richard, 4
Schnabel, Stefan, 85, 132, 255
Schneider, Daniel E., 160
Schneider, Elizabeth Susan, 204, 206
Schneider, Herman, 100, 181–82, 204, 219, 255
Schneider, Lucy, 116
Schneider, Nina, 100, 116, 181–82, 204, 219, 255
Scholastic, 165, 181, 215, 228, 252, 266
School Library Journal, 228, 260, 264
Schurr, Cathleen. See Skelly, Cathleen “Cay”
Schuyler, James, 239
Schwed, Fred, Jr., 86–87, 97, 135, 176, 229, 285n
Scientific American, 238
Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace, 113–14
Scott, Hazel, 87
Scott, Jerry, 275
Scott, William R., 126. See also William R. Scott (publisher)
Scribner’s, 201
Sealy (mattress company), 158
Searchinger, Gene, 135, 187, 238, 255, 257
Searle, Ronald, 193
“Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The,” 94
Seldes, George, 44
Selsam, Howard, 145
Selsam, Millicent, 145
Sendak, Maurice, 3, 4, 6, 86, 98, 122–27, 130–31, 135, 137–39, 142, 153–54, 158–59, 162–63, 166, 176, 178–79, 181, 184, 189, 192, 194, 202, 204, 209–10, 213–14, 233–34, 260, 263, 266, 270–72, 274
Seuss, Dr., 4, 61, 94, 98, 178, 184, 283n
Shakespeare, William, 23, 166, 199–201, 248
Sharnick, John, 176
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 150
Shepard, Jane, 267–68
Shepard, Sam, 248
Sherman, Harriet S., 122
Shostakovich, Dmitri, 113
Shy Little Kitten, The, 170
Sicily, 251–52
Sign on Rosie’s Door, The, 192
Silence, 247
“Silence,” 247
Silverstein, David, 247
Similar Triangles (Thales), 227
Simon & Schuster, 96, 125, 163
Simont, Marc, 112, 115, 121–22, 195, 197
Simpsons, The, 5
“Sister, You Need the Union! … And the Union Needs You!,” 77
Skelly, Cathleen “Cay,” 170
Skelly, Joseph, 73
Skelton, Red, 100
Skrifola (Danish publisher), 156
Sloane, William, 96
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 255
Small Black Lambs Wandering in the Red Poppies, 265
Smith, Gladys, 254
Smith, Lane, 6
Smith, Michael, 223
Smith, Michael Steven, 108
Smith, Stanley, 254
Smithsonian Institution, 257, 261, 272
Snodgrass, W. D., 170
Soby, James Thrall, 181
Society of Illustrators, 165
Soglow, Otto, 56
“Solidarity Forever,” 133
Solomon, Deborah, 5
Somebody Else’s Nut Tree, 68, 163, 228
Somebody Spilled the Sky, 262–63
Something Else Press, 237, 241
“Song,” 217
“Song of the Melancholy Dress,” 230, 272
Song of the South, The, 110
Sontag, Susan, 220
Sophocles, 166
Soviet Union. See USSR
Spanish Civil War, 119–20
Sparber, Howard, 72–73
Spencer Memorial Church, 221
Splash, 26
Spotty, 67
St. Louis, 10
Stagakis, Nina. See Wallace, Nina Rowand
Stanton, Jessie, 110
Steinberg, Saul, 5, 58, 81, 149
Stevens, Wallace, 221
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 23
Stewart, Donald Ogden, 46, 106
Stockholm, 246
Stoddard, Sandol, 165
Stone, I. F., 113. See also I.F. Stone’s Weekly
“Strange Fruit,” 80
Stravinsky, Igor, 215
Strong, Edward, 217
Stroud, J. B., 73, 227, 235, 252
surrealism, 195, 201, 209, 211, 223, 237
Sweden, 238
Swenson, May, 237
Switzerland, 239
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, 178
Syracuse, 251
Szilagyi, Mary, 266–67
Szyk, Arthur, 58
“Tabu,” 239
Tangier, 251
TASS, 36
Taxi That Hurried, The, 110
Taylor, Alex, 36
Taylor, Brett, 223
Taylor, Judy, 234
Taylor, Recy, 79
“Teachers Appeal for Peace in Vietnam,” 228
Tempo Productions, 193
Tennis Court Oath, The, 239
Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 23
Terre Haute Children’s Theatre, 104
Terre Haute Tribune, 104
Terrible Terrifying Toby, 156–57, 166, 170, 192
Terry and the Pirates, 64
Thales, 227
“Thank You,” 208
“That dirty Russian deserted us!” (cartoon), 53
Theatre Experiment, 221
Theatreworks USA, 267
There’s a Little Ambiguity Over There Among the Bluebells, 183, 219, 237, 241, 295n
There’s a Little Ambiguity Over There Among the Bluebells (play), 248
“There’s a Little Ambiguity Over There Among the Bluebells,” 234
Thinker, 114
38 Haikus, 215
“This Breast,” 208, 247, 249, 295n
This Breast Gothic, 247–50, 265, 295n
This Rich World: The Story of Money, 65–66
Thomas Y. Crowell (publisher), 175
Thompson, Kay, 4
Three Caballeros, The, 110
Thurber, James, 94
Thurmond, Strom, 109
Tide, 165
Time of Wonder, 178
“To His Coy Mistress,” 190
Tobey, Barney, 58
Tobias, Ann Jorgensen, 200, 203–4, 293n
Tojo, Hideki, 58
Tolkin, Michael, 5
Tolstoy, Leo, 179
Tom Sawyer, 145
Tracy, Spencer, 80
Transcendental Curve (Wallis), 228
Tropic of Cancer, The, 155
Trotsky, Leon, 49
Troy Record, 129
Trubowitz, Jackie, 231
Trubowitz, Shelley, 120, 135, 197, 231, 255, 259
Truman, Harry, 107–9
Trumbo, Dalton, 106
Truth About Father Coughlin, The, 47
Turner, Charles Y., 14
Two Is a Team, 66
Two Medicine River, 51
2001: A Space Odyssey, 234
Under Thirteen, 252
Under Twenty, 239
Ungerer, Tomi, 193
United Auto Workers-CIO, 77
United Kingdom. See England
United Nations, 80
United Productions of America (UPA), 93, 111, 193
United States v. William Z. Foster et al., 119
University of California at Berkeley, 217
University of Southern Mississippi, 228
Untermeyer, Louis, 219
UPA. See United Productions of America (UPA)
“Uri Gagarin & William Shakespeare,” 199
Ussachevsky, Vladimir, 182
USSR, 37, 45, 49, 53, 91–92, 106–7, 109, 113, 119, 133, 194, 199, 246
U-2 plane, 194
Vallorbe, 220
Van Allsburg, Chris, 5, 152, 275
Van Riper, Kay, 96
“Variations on a Lorca Form,” 197–98, 201
Variety, 191
Vaughn, Eleanor K., 158
Velvet Underground, 237
Venice Film Festival, 251
Very Special House, A, 126–27, 132–33, 137–38, 153, 209
Vic Jordan, 61
Vietnam War, 182, 219, 228, 241
Village Creek, 132–33
Village Voice, 195, 215, 221, 223
Wagner Literary Magazine, 204–5, 208
Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill, 87
Wakoski, Diane, 217
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, 113
Wallace, Gene, 85, 135, 143, 157, 266
Wallace, Henry, 61, 95, 103–4, 106–9, 113, 132
Wallace, Nina Rowand, 85, 98, 116, 140, 142–43, 157–58, 162–64, 210, 223, 266, 269
Wallis, John, 228
Walter, Sydney Schubert, 215
Ware, Chris, 7
“Was it Marx, Lenin, or Gen. Johnson who said:‘ The general strike is quite another matter’?” (cartoon), 37
We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy, 272
We Wonder What Will Walter Be? When He Grows Up, 218
“Weather,” 190
Weegee. See Fellig, Arthur
Weltfish, Gene, 63–64, 111, 113
Western Female High School, 14, 26
Weston-Westport Arts Council, 239
Westport, 8, 95, 140, 202, 239, 241, 247, 249, 251, 255, 258, 263, 267
Westport Arts Center, 259
Westport News, 260
Westport Poetry Workshop, 258–59, 265
What a Fine Day For …, 233, 235
What Can You Do with a Shoe?, 181
Where Are the Customers’ Yachts?; or, A Good Hard Look at Wall Street, 86
Where the Wild Things Are, 5, 178, 209–10, 213–14, 274
Whistler, James Abbott, 114
White, Betty (Lionel’s sister), 38
White, E. B., 4
White, Harold (Lionel’s brother), 38
White, Julie (Lionel’s first wife), 38
White, Lionel (RK’s first husband), 31, 38–40, 51, 263–64, 280n
Whitman, Walt, 209
Whittlesey House, 193
Who’s Afraid of Virgina Woolf?, 201
Who’s Upside Down?, 119, 129–30, 135, 157
Why Johnny Can’t Read, 184
Whyte, William H., Jr., 158
Wild Dog, 217
Willcox, Roger, 132
William Morrow (publisher), 264
William R. Scott (publisher), 129, 140, 157, 181
William Sloane Associates, 96
Williams, Gurney, 54
Williamson, Judson H., 59
Willie’s Adventures, 139
Will Spring Be Early? Or Will Spring Be Late?, 175–76
Win the Peace Conference, 92
Winn, Marcia, 115–16
Winnie-the-Pooh, 201
Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel, 153
Wizard of Oz, 81
Wolfe, Tom, 160
Wolff, Miles H., 74
Woman of the Year, 80
Woman’s Day, 85
“Wonderfullums Inc.” (cartoon), 54
Woodward, Helen, 32
Wordsworth, William, 23
World Affairs Center, 241
World Anthology: Poems from the St. Mark’s Poetry Project, The, 239
World of Mathematics, The, 227–28
World War I, 14, 20–21, 23, 41
World War II, 52–53, 56, 58, 63, 66, 77, 87, 100
XbyX, 204
Yaddo, 259
Yorklyn Elementary School, 226
You Can’t Take It with You, 93
Young, Chic, 65
Young, Loretta, 135
Yucatán, 95
“Yuri Gagarin & William Shakespeare,” 199, 201
Zablodowsky, David, 35
Zeebrugge, 246
Zerner, Charles, 61
Zion, Gene, 184
Zits, 275