ABBREVIATIONS
AR |
Ad Reinhardt |
AR Papers |
Ad Reinhardt Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution |
BD |
Barbara Dicks |
BP Records |
Bookstore Press Records, Northeast Children’s Literature Collection, Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs |
CJ Papers-ERK |
Crockett Johnson Papers, Estate of Ruth Krauss |
CJ Papers-HC |
Crockett Johnson Papers, HarperCollins Publishers’ Archives |
CJ Papers-SI |
Crockett Johnson Papers, Mathematics Division, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution |
FBI-CJ |
FBI file for David Johnson Leisk alias Crockett Johnson, FOIPA No. 0999494-00 |
IJW |
Ruth Krauss, Intensive Journal Workbook, box 21, folder 691, Ruth Krauss Papers, Northeast Children’s Literature Collection, Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs |
Kent Papers |
Rockwell Kent Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution |
MD |
Maryland Department, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore |
NS |
Nina Stagakis |
RK |
Ruth Krauss |
RKA |
Ruth Krauss autobiography, ca. mid-1940s, box 20, folder 698, Ruth Krauss Papers, Northeast Children’s Literature Collection, Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs |
RK Papers-HC |
Ruth Krauss Papers, HarperCollins Publishers’ Archives |
RK Papers-NCLC |
Ruth Krauss Papers, Northeast Children’s Literature Collection, Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs |
SC |
Susan Carr |
Stroud Notes |
J. B. Stroud, unpublished notes on Johnson’s paintings, in possession of J. B. Stroud |
UN |
Ursula Nordstrom |
“Where” |
Ruth Krauss, “Where Am I Going?,” box 20, folder 702, Ruth Krauss Papers, Northeast Children’s Literature Collection, Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs |
1. New Haven Office of the FBI, “David Johnson Leisk, wa. Crockett Johnson,” 10 Nov. 1950, 5, FBI-CJ.
2. Mickenberg, Learning, 15, 141–42; Mickenberg and Nel, Tales, 101, 205.
3. Marcus, Minders, 216.
4. The Simpsons, season 21, episode 22, 16 May 2010; Dove, “Maple Valley Branch Library,” 32.
5. Solomon, “Beyond Finger Paint,” 25.
6. Bader, “Ruth Krauss,” 416; Sendak, “Ruth Krauss and Me,” 287.
7. Parker, “Mash Note,” 16; Wepman, “Barnaby,” 47.
8. Waugh, Comics, 306.
1. IJW, 17–20 Oct. 1979; RK birth certificate, Maryland State Archives; Baltimore City Directories for 1901, 1933, MD; Sanborn Maps of Baltimore, 1901–2, MD; Wertz and Wertz, Lying-In, 133.
2. Baltimore City Directories for 1892, 1901, MD; 1880 U.S. Census; Swyrich, “Ancient History”; IJW, 19 Oct. 1979.
3. Fein, Making, 134; IJW, 19 Oct. 1979; Baltimore City Directories, 1891–1921, MD.
4. “Mrs. Albert A. Brager,” Baltimore Sun, biography files, MD; 1910 U.S. Census, Maryland, Baltimore 13, Enumeration District 201; 1920 U.S. Census, Maryland, Baltimore 13, Enumeration District 204; 1880 U.S. Census, St. Louis, Missouri; IJW, 17–20 Oct. 1979. Carrie Mayer was the sister of Hollywood producer Samuel Mayer.
5. Marriage record, Baltimore City Court of Common Pleas, Maryland State Archives; Pruce, Synagogues, 126–29; William Rosenau, “Oheb Shalom Congregation,” in Blum, Jews, 65; Fein, Making, 178; IJW, 20 Oct. 1979; Baltimore City Directories, 1890–1900, MD; Bowditch, Images, 12–43; Sandler, Jewish Baltimore, 55.
6. Brian Alverson to author, 20 September 2004; IJW, 19 Oct. 1979.
7. IJW, 19 Oct. 1979; Hahn, interview.
8. RKA, 2.
9. Baltimore City Directories, 1903–15, MD; 1910 U.S. Census; Sandler, Jewish Baltimore, 44; Sanford Maps of Baltimore, 1901–2, 1915, MD.
10. “Where,” 39–40.
11. Ibid., 40.
12. IJW, 20 Oct. 1979; “Krauss, Ruth (Ida) 1911–,” in Something about the Author, 135; Baltimore Sun, index for 1913, PR.
13. “Ruth Krauss: Let Me Tell You a Story,” 3–4; Graetz, interview; “Krauss, Ruth (Ida) 1911–,” in Something about the Author, 134; Harms, “Interview,” 9.
14. Sandler, Jewish Baltimore, 43; Baltimore City Directories, 1916–18, MD; Chico, “Cone Sisters,” 82–83; “The Marlborough Apartment House” (promotional brochure), ca. 1905, MD; RKA, 2–3.
15. Klapper, Jewish Girls, 78, 90, 202.
16. RK, “Ruth Krauss,” in More Junior Authors, 126; information provided by Joan Schwartz, Alumni Office, Maryland Institute of Art, 2 June 2005; “N.Y. Artists Out for Cash,” Baltimore Sun, 30 Jan. 1917, J.O.L., “The Three Arts: Music Drama Painting,” Baltimore Sun, 4 June 1918, “Consulting Engineers in the Art of Dress,” [Baltimore Sun?], 1921, all in Decker Library, Maryland Institute College of Art; Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts, Announcement: Schools of Art and Design, Baltimore, Md., 1917–1918, 13, Maryland Institute College of Art.
17. Baltimore City Directories, 1918, 1919, 1920, MD; 1920 U.S. Census; information provided by Joan Schwartz, Alumni Office, Maryland Institute of Art, 2 June 2005; “Consulting Engineers in the Art of Dress,” [Baltimore Sun?], 1921, Decker Library, Maryland Institute College of Art; Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts, Announcement, 30.
18. Cohen, interview.
1. Nicholson, Shetland, 11, 16, 44–45, 135; Gott, Shetland Family History; Linklater, Orkney and Shetland, 189; Scotland Online, Scotland’s People; Thomson, “Population and Depopulation,” 151; Else Frank, interview.
2. 1900 U.S. Census, Buffalo, Ward 11, Erie, New York; Else Frank, interview.
3. Newtown Register, 13 May 1915, qtd. in Seyfried, Corona, 53, 50–51, 70–71; Else Frank, interview.
4. Else Frank, interview; “May Go to the Grand Jury”; Seyfried, Corona, 55.
5. Seyfried, Corona, 67–68; Fitzgerald, Great Gatsby, 27.
6. Hopkins, “Ruth Krauss [and] Crockett Johnson,” 124; Else Frank, interview. At varying times, Crockett Johnson gave different reasons for having changed his name. On one occasion, he said that “Leisk was too hard to pronounce” (Hopkins, “Ruth Krauss [and] Crockett Johnson,” 124), and according to “O’Malley for Dewey,” “Crockett Johnson dropped his real name, David Johnson Leisk (pronounced Lisk) because he got tired of spelling it out.”
7. Else Frank, interview.
8. Ibid.; Fisher, “Barnaby and Mr. O’Malley.”
9. Else Frank, interview.
10. John Hyslop to author, 19 Nov. 2006; Seyfried, Corona, 65–66.
11. Theodore Roosevelt, America, 392–93; New York State Census, 1915, 1925; Seyfried, Corona, 52.
12. Else Frank, interview; “Cushlamochree!,” 102, 104; Leslie Howard, “What’s in a Song?”
13. Newtown High School Handbook, 9, 12, 18, 108, 82–83, 42–62.
14. Else Frank interview; Newtown High School Lantern, May 1922, cover, May 1923, cover; H[annah] B[aker], “Crockett Johnson,” 1.
15. Else Frank interview; “Newtown High Decides to Play,” 10; “Newtown Swamps Schools,” 8; “27 Newtown High Students,” 12; “Corona & Elmhurst,” 12; Doggett, Newtown High School, 29.
16. “Newtown H.S. Graduates,” 12; “Newtown Loses Baseball Stars,” 14; Norris, “Meet the Man,” 24; “Newtown High School, Elmhurst,” 5.
1. “Walden Past”; Camp Walden, Denmark Maine, 1917, 4, Camp Walden Papers, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies; Cohen, interview.
2. Splash, 1920, Camp Walden Archives, Denmark, Maine; Cohen, interview.
3. Cohen, interview; “Brief History”; Camp Walden, Denmark Maine, 1917, 11; RK to UN, [Mar.–Apr. 1963], RK Papers-HC.
4. Cohen, interview; Splash, 1919, Camp Walden Archives.
5. Ibid., 1920.
6. RK student records, Peabody Archives, Friedheim Music Library, Peabody Institute.
7. Ibid.
8. Hahn, interview; Graetz, interview; Baltimore City Directories, 1923, 1924–25, 1926, 1927, MD.
9. RKA, 3.
10. “Necessary Information for Inquiring Students,” in New York School of Fine and Applied Art: General Prospectus, 1927–1928, 44–45, 47–48, Parsons School Archives, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Archives Center, Parsons School of Design, New School University; Marjorie F. Jones, “History,” 117; “Necessary Information for All Who Are Inquiring,” in New York School of Fine and Applied Art (Parsons): General Prospectus, 1928–1929, 40, Parsons School Archives.
10. Ibid.
11. Marjorie F. Jones, “History,” 91–92; Gropius, qtd. in Read, Art and Industry, 40; Parsons, qtd. in Marjorie F. Jones, “History,” 297, 361.
12. Marjorie F. Jones, “History,” 141; Hambidge, Practical Applications, intro., 3, 20.
13. RKA, 4.
14. IJW, 17–20 Oct. 1979; RKA, 3–4.
15. Kimmel, interview; “Costume Design, Construction and Illustration,” in New York School of Fine and Applied Art (Parsons), 16; “Georges Lepape”; Jewell, “Students,” 10; Yohannan and Nolf, Claire McCardell, 19–21; Valerie Steele, “McCardell’s American Look,” in Yohannan and Nolf, Claire McCardell, 13.
16. IJW, 17–20 Oct. 1979; Kimmel, interview; Jackie Curtis and Maureen O’Hara, interview; Valerie Harms to author, 5 Aug. 2002; Chadwick, interview; Noguchi, Sculptor’s World, 19; Torres, Isamu Noguchi, 311.
17. RKA, 4; Harms, “Interview,” 8.
18. “Albert A. Brager to Wed,” 7; “Albert A. Brager Married,” 3; “Albert A. Brager’s Funeral,” 18.
19. “Lionel White 1905–”; Hedy White, interview; Helaine White, interview; IJW, 19 Oct. 1979.
1. Else Frank, interview; Miller, interview.
2. Leach, Land of Desire, 22; Fisher, “Barnaby and Mr. O’Malley”; Hungerford, Romance, 90–91, 93, 176.
3. Lears, Fables, 226; Norris, “Meet the Man.”
4. Norris, “Meet the Man,” 24; Else Frank, interview; “Ice Business,” Donnelley’s Red Book Classified Telephone Directory: Queens, Winter Issue 1927–1928, Dec. to June, Long Island Division, Queens Borough Public Library; Folsom, interview; Searchinger, interview; Trubowitz, interview.
5. “Looking Back at 1927,” 22–25, 50–54; Burlingame, Endless Frontiers, 265.
6. “Leisk, David Johnson,” in Something about the Author (1971), 141; “Leisk, David Johnson 1906–,” 505; “Leisk, David Johnson,” in Something about the Author (1983), 141–44; “Crockett Johnson,” 152–53; MacLeod, “Johnson, Crockett,” 499; “Johnson, Crockett,” 346; Film Designers, promotional brochure, box 28, folder 857, RK Papers-NCLC; New York University Department of Fine Arts: Announcements for the Summer Term, 1926—Fall Term, 1926–1927—Spring Term, 1927, 9, New York University Archives; Goudy, introduction, 20; Boone, “Type,” 114; Orton, Goudy, 27; “Johnson, Crockett, pseud.,” 126.
7. “Pioneer Manufacturer,” 1049; McGraw, “Why McGraw-Hill Desires to Serve,” 629; H[annah] B[aker], “Crockett Johnson,” 2; Fisher, “Barnaby and Mr. O’Malley”; “Cushlamochree!,” 104; “Editorial: Styled for Today,” 769; Burlingame, Endless Frontiers, 291, 267–68, 271, 273.
8. 1930 U.S. Census; Else Frank, interview; Folsom, interview; 1930 U.S. Census; New York City 1933 Directory H–R, 287, New York Public Library.
9. Folsom, interview.
10. Chandler, America’s Greatest Depression, 5–6; “Treasury’s Position,” 22; “Milk Strike,” F21; Denning, Cultural Front, xiii, 200.
1. “Writer Is Rescued,” 32; “Recovering from Submersion,” 17; Hahn, interview.
2. Helaine White, interview; “Lionel White 1905–”; Hedy White, interview; “Books and Authors,” 18; RK to Miss Coker, 27 Mar. 1944, RK Papers-HC; Goulart, Cheap Thrills, 13; Georgia M. Higley to author, 11 July 2005. Decades later, White’s detective novels would become classic films: Stanley Kubrick adapted Clean Break (1955) as The Killing (1956), and Jean-Luc Godard filmed Obsession (1962) as Pierrot le fou (1965).
3. RK to Miss Coker, 27 Mar. 1944, RK Papers-HC; RK to Dorothy Warner, 10 Dec. 1986, folder 42, box 2, series I, RK Papers-NCLC; IJW, 19 Oct. 1979; Lionel White and RK, marriage certificate, Orphans’ Court Division, Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; Hahn, interview.
4. IJW, 19 Oct. 1979; Hahn, interview; “Where,” 122; RK to Miss Coker, 27 Mar. 1944, RK Papers-HC.
5. Hahn, interview; “Wife and Children,” 36; RK, “Poem for the Depression,” 1960, folder 33, box 2, series I, RK Papers-NCLC.
6. IJW, 19 Oct. 1979; Graetz, interview.
7. RK, “The House,” 1, 16, 17–18, 14, 20, 21, box 19, folder 690, RK Papers-NCLC.
8. “Where,” 72.
9. Ibid., 72–73; RK to Miss Coker, 27 Mar. 1944, RK Papers-HC.
10. “Where,” 69–71.
11. Hahn, interview.
1. Mischa Richter, interview.
2. Bergman, We’re in the Money, 115–20.
3. Denning, Cultural Front, 9.
4. “To Our Readers”; Lerner, “American League,” 31; Klehr, Heyday, 116; “With the Readers,” 5.
5. Magil, interview; “Johnson, Crockett,” 346; News Letter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts 40 (July 1936), American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York; Joe Freeman to Granville Hicks, 6 June 1936, box 44, folder: New Masses, 1936–1939, Granville Hicks Papers, Syracuse University Library, Special Collections Research Center; Joe Freeman to Rockwell Kent, 24 July 1936, Rockwell Kent to Joseph Freeman, 29 July 1936, reel 5217, frames 0934–35, Kent Papers; “Rockwell Kent Biography.”
6. CJ, qtd. in Hemingway, Artists, 105.
7. Dutt, “Britain and Spain,” 3; “Challenge and the Answer,” 20; “Cement,” 10.
8. Joe Freeman to Granville Hicks, 6 June 1936, box 44, folder: New Masses, 1936–1939, Hicks Papers; Mischa Richter, cartoon, New Masses, 19 Oct. 1937; AR, cartoon, New Masses, 14 July 1936; Abe Ajay, cartoon, New Masses, 8 Sept. 1936; Lee Hall, Abe Ajay, 31; “With the Readers,” 5; AR, artist’s chronology, reel N69-99, frame 115, AR Papers; Anna Reinhardt, interview; NS, interview; McMahon, interview; Landau, interview; Alice McMahon, biographical sketch of George Annand (1980), George Annand Papers, in possession of Alice McMahon.
9. AR, artist’s chronology; Anna Reinhardt, interview.
10. CJ to Rockwell Kent, 11 May 1937, reel 5217, frame 0971, Kent Papers; Syd Hoff to author, 8 July 2000.
11. Mickenberg, “Pedagogy.”
12. Magil, interview; Browder, “Isolationist Front,” 3–4; Browder, “Historic Report,” 3–4.
13. Magil, interview; Communist Party U.S.A. Records, Library of Congress; Linder, “Samuel Liebowitz”; Klehr and Haynes, American Communist Movement, 79, 86; Harold Strauss to William Gropper, 20 Oct. 1936, roll 3501, frame 556, William Gropper Papers, Syracuse University Library, Special Collections Research Center.
14. McCloud, Understanding Comics, 30, 37.
15. “Public Speaking Zooms”; Cobb, Radical Education, 36, 148, 204, 116, 63; Randolph, “Utopia in Arkansas,” 147; Oser, interview.
16. Syd Hoff to author, 15 July 2001; Redfield, “‘When the Locomotive’”; Magil, interview.
1. RKA, 5.
2. Lapsley, Margaret Mead, 275; NS to author, [Mar. 2001?].
3. RKA, 6.
4. Ibid., 7; “Where,” 98, 99.
5. RKA, 7–8.
6. Benedict, “Primitive Freedom,” 760, 762; Caffrey, Ruth Benedict, 291.
7. Columbia University in the City of New York: Directory Number for the Sessions 1939–1940, 162, 76, Columbiana Library, Columbia University Archives; Columbia University in the City of New York: Catalogue Number for the Sessions of 1940–1941, 207, Columbiana Library, Columbia University Archives; “Between Ourselves,” 28 Mar. 1939, 2; Rovere, “What Every Appeaser Should Know,” 5–6; “Why the Pact Was Signed,” 10–12.
8. RKA, 5–6.
9. Beckwith, “Barnaby,” 33; “Wife of Barnaby’s Creator Is Baltimore Authoress,” Baltimore Sun, ca. 1 Oct. 1944, RK Papers-HC; Hahn, interview.
10. Mischa Richter, interviews; Sparber, interview.
11. “This Little Gag”; Mischa Richter, interview. Richter remained at New Masses until late 1941, when he became a New Yorker cartoonist.
12. Though officially untitled, the comic strip is known by the name Little Man with the Eyes.
13. Norris, “Meet the Man,” 24; original drawing dedicated “To Ben Gray Moore with Thanks,” and CJ to Ben Gray Moore, 20 Mar. 1942, in possession of Ben Gray Moore Jr.; CJ, “Watch Ford in ‘48.” I thank Mark Newgarden for his help in figuring out CJ’s method of composition.
14. “Between Ourselves,” 2 Apr. 1940.
15. Gurney Williams, Collier’s Collects Its Wits, 80; FBI-CJ, 11 May 1951.
16. Columbia University in the City of New York: Supplement to the Directory Number 1941, 22, Columbiana Library, Columbia University Archives; 1941 New York phone book; “Crockett Johnson,” in Major Authors, ed. Collier and Nakamura, 1436; “Leisk, David Johnson,” in Something about the Author (1971), 141; “Leisk, David Johnson,” in Something about the Author (1983), 141; “‘A Hole Is to Dig? Harold Should Know,” 2; “Johnson, Crockett,” 347; “Wife of Barnaby’s Creator”; New York Office of the FBI, 11 May 1951, FBI-CJ; Heinrich, interview; RKA, 6.
17. New York Office of the FBI, 11 May 1951, FBI-CJ; World War Two Bonds Cartoons, Terry-D’Alessio Collection. Ruth was enrolled at Columbia University in the fall of 1941, although she was not a degree student, and there is no record of what classes she took.
18. World War Two Bonds Cartoons, Terry-D’Alessio Collection. Johnson’s cartoon featuring Hitler and the clock and the globe was reprinted in the 24 February 1942 issue of New Masses, his first drawing to appear in that publication since May 1940.
19. “Where,” 44–46.
20. Colored Comic Continuities stock certificate, 10 May 1941, signed George Annand, George Annand Papers, in possession of Alice McMahon; Alice McMahon to author, 3 July 2001; McMahon, interview; Norris, “Meet the Man”; Tom Hopps to author, 9 Apr. 2000; Raymond, Rowayton, 86, 88.
21. Norris, “Meet the Man”; Fisher, “Barnaby”; Mischa Richter, interview.
22. “The Saga of Barnaby,” Barnaby Quarterly 1.1 (July 1945): 25; Norris, “Meet the Man.”
1. “The Saga of Barnaby,” Barnaby Quarterly 1.1 (July 1945): 25; “Cushlamochree!”; Fisher, “Barnaby and Mr. O’Malley.”
2. Milkman, PM, 49, 43, 1, 41; Nevins, “Pulp and Adventure Heroes: J”; Nevins, “Pulp and Adventure Heroes: P.”
3. Geisel, qtd. in Ralph Ingersoll, “Memo to the Staff,” 24 Mar. 1942, 2–3, MSS 0230, box 18, folder 27, Dr. Seuss Collection, Mandeville Special Collections, University of California at San Diego. For nine months, PM ran cartoons by both Johnson and Geisel. Although they knew each other’s work and may have met socially, they were not friends, and Johnson disliked Geisel’s style of illustration (NS, interview).
4. Norris, “Meet the Man.”
5. Fisher, “Barnaby and Mr. O’Malley.”
6. Norris, “Meet the Man,” 24.
7. Columbia University Bulletin of Information: Announcement for the Division of Philosophy, Psychology, and Anthropology for the Winter and Spring Sessions 1942–1943, 38–39, Columbiana Library, Columbia University Archives; RK to Miss Coker, 27 Mar. 1944, RK Papers-HC; “Where,” 24.
8. Benedict and Weltfish, Races, 3, 16, 18; Caffrey, Ruth Benedict, 298.
9. Ellington, “He Trusts”; Parker, “Mash Note.”
10. Norris, “Meet the Man,” 24; FBI-CJ, 11 May 1951.
11. Foster, This Rich World, rear dust jacket, 143, 125.
12. Hahn, interview.
13. Charlotte Zolotow, interview; Charlotte Zolotow, speech at RK memorial service, July 1993, cassette tape provided by Maureen O’Hara; Bader, “Ruth Krauss,” 416.
14. Mickenberg and Nel, Tales, intro. to sec. 7. See also Mickenberg, Learning, chaps. 3, 5, 7.
15. Norris, “Meet the Man,” 24; McNell and McNell, interview.
1. “Wife of Barnaby’s Creator Is Baltimore Authoress,” Baltimore Sun, ca. 1 Oct. 1944, RK Papers-HC; Norris, “Meet the Man,” 24; Mischa Richter, interview; David Johnson Leisk and RK marriage certificate, Estate of RK, Cohen & Wolf, Bridgeport, Conn.
2. “Where,” 114.
3. UN to RK, 16 Nov. 1943, RK to UN, 1 Jan. 1944, both in RK Papers-HC.
4. Kent, Benét, Untermeyer, McKenney, qtd. in CJ, Barnaby, back dust jacket; Parker, “Mash Note”; S[eaver], “Books,” 14, Barnaby Fan Mail II, CJ Papers-SI.
5. Philadelphia Record, 18 Oct. 1943, Henry Holt and Company advertisement, New York Times Book Review, 12 Nov. 1943, both in Barnaby Fan Mail II, CJ Papers-SI; Publisher’s Weekly clipping, 22 Nov. 1943, photograph and handwritten note by Elenore Lust, both in Elenore Lust Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; “Speaking of Pictures”; “Cushlamochree!,” 102; “Tonight,” New York Times, 9 Nov. 1943.
6. Charles Frederick Lehmann to managing editor of PM, 27 May 1944, Pvt. Daniel H. Distler to CJ, 22 Nov. 1944, George A. Elliott III to CJ, 30 Sept. 1944, “The Things to Do,” Wilmington (Del.) Experiment Station Beacon, 4 Feb. 1944, Joseph H. Firman to CJ, 19 May 1944, “O’Malley Foiled by Crown Zippers,” Life, 10 Apr. 1944, 82, Hannah Baker to Lillian Schwartz, 28 June 1944, 21 Jan. 1946, all in Barnaby Fan Mail II, CJ Papers-SI; Bob Miller, “Mr. O’Malley’s March” (sheet music) (1944), CJ Papers-SI.
7. RK to UN, 12 Jan., 27 Feb. 1944, both in RK Papers-HC.
8. “Ruth Krauss: Let Me Tell You a Story,” 3; “Krauss, Ruth (Ida) 1911–,” in Something about the Author, 135; unsigned letter to RK, RK to UN, [Oct. 1944?], both in RK Papers-HC.
9. RK to UN, n.d., RK Papers-HC.
10. Korff, “Children’s Books”; RK to UN, 25 Aug. 1960, RK Papers-HC; Bader, “Ruth Krauss,” 418.
11. “Wife of Barnaby’s Creator”; Sparber, interview.
12. Sparber, interview. The first strip to use type was George Herriman’s The Dingbat Family of 26 July 1910 (notable for the debut of Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse), but Herriman abandoned the experiment, preferring hand-lettering (McDonnell, O’Connell, and de Havenon, Krazy Kat, 55). I thank Chris Ware for pointing me to this Herriman strip. My description of Futura owes a debt to Burke, Paul Renner, 96–98, 113.
13. Sparber, interview.
14. Skelly, interview; Christopher Skelly to author, 13 July 2007; Stroud, “Crockett Johnson’s Geometric Paintings,” 78–79; E. H. C. Hildebrandt to CJ, 3 Mar. 1944, Barnaby Fan Mail II, CJ Papers-SI; Gray, “Engineering Research Associates.”
15. Miles H. Wolff to Harry Elmlark, 10 July 1944, Mary E. O’Malley to editor, Baltimore Evening Sun, ca. 23 June 1944, Stephen G. May et al. to editor, Baltimore Evening Sun, ca. 24 June 1944, all in Barnaby Fan Mail II, CJ Papers-SI.
16. Beckwith, “Barnaby.”
17. Jo Davidson to CJ, 17 Jan. 1944, Barnaby Fan Mail I, CJ Papers-SI; President’s Speech, Hugo Gellert Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
18. Hannah Baker to Norman Dine, 26 Sept. 1944, “Ex-Rep. O’Malley’s Program: Woolgathering,” PM, 25 Oct. 1944, both in Barnaby Fan Mail II, CJ Papers-SI.
19. Mallet, “Godfather,” 9; Mallet, “Cartoonists,” 7; Conroy, “Leisk,” 73; Binsse, “Children’s Books,” 127.
20. UN to CJ, 2 Nov. 1944, CJ to UN, 27 Nov. 1944, both in CJ Papers-HC.
21. “Events Today,” 21; “Dinner Will Honor Gropper,” 8; “Edward Chodorov Invites You to a Dinner Honoring William Gropper on Monday Evening, December Fourth at Six-Forty-Five” (program), Box 11, William Gropper Papers, Syracuse University Library, Special Collections Research Center.
22. FBI-CJ; Henrietta Buckmaster to Rockwell Kent, 6 Feb. 1945, reel 5169, frame 269, Kent Papers; Loewen, Lies across America, 246–50; Katherine Shryver to CJ, 18 Mar. 1944, Barnaby Fan Mail I, CJ Papers-SI; Hannah Baker to Katherine Shryver, 22 Mar. 1944, Barnaby Fan Mail II, CJ Papers-SI.
23. Schallert, “Dorothy McGuire,” A10; “Musical Revivals,” 10; Denning, Cultural Front, 295–300.
24. “Nugent’s Comedy,” 16; Margolick, Strange Fruit, 40–41; Lyons, “Lyons Den,” 18; Sam Zolotow, “New Variety Show,” 17; Denning, Cultural Front, 115; “Jimmy Savo Celebrates First Anniversary, and a Comeback, at Café Society Uptown, Monday, May 22” (press release), 17 May 1944, Barnaby Fan Mail II, CJ Papers-SI.
25. Deed of sale, 13 Feb. 1945, Probate Court, Norwalk, Conn., 307:198–99.
26. RK to UN, [Oct. 1944?], 27 Mar. 1945, both in RK Papers-HC; review of The Carrot Seed, Virginia Kirkus’ Bookshop Service, 180; Buell, review of The Carrot Seed, 18.
27. Hopkins, “Ruth Krauss [and] Crockett Johnson,” 122; Raymond Eisenhardt to CJ, 27 Aug. 1945, RK Papers-HC; RK, untitled short story (about the writing of The Great Duffy), 29, box 7, folder 242, RK Papers-NCLC; “Krauss, Ruth (Ida) 1911–,” in Something about the Author, 135.
1. CJ, Barnaby, 8 June, 6 Dec. 1944, both in Barnaby #4, 28, 183; American Statistical Association Bulletin 3.4 (Aug. 1944); “Small Cigaret Firms,” 8; CJ, Barnaby, 30 Jan. 1945, in Barnaby #5, 15; “Soap Opera”; Agnes Allen to CJ, 12 Apr. 1945, Barnaby Fan Mail II, CJ Papers-SI.
2. Fisher, “Barnaby and Mr. O’Malley”; Norris, “Meet the Man,” 24.
3. RK, untitled short story (about the writing of The Great Duffy), box 7, folder 242, RK Papers-NCLC 1–2.
4. Ibid., 2, 3.
5. Antler, Lucy Sprague Mitchell, 322–23; Marcus, Margaret Wise Brown, 52.
6. Dan Richter, interview.
7. RK, untitled short story (about the writing of The Great Duffy), 22, 14, 13, 16–17.
8. Ibid., 26–27.
9. Baby Talk, in possession of NS.
10. NS, interview; RK to UN, [Feb. 1945], “Ruth Krauss, 1943–1950,” RK Papers-HC.
11. Ray and Stewart, Norwalk, 159, 212n; Elizabeth Ring Hennefrund to author, 11 Sept. 2004; Edwards, “Journalist and the G-Man,” 119, 152–54; Schnabel, interview; Marinsky, interview. Schwed, Pleasure Was Mine, 201, also uses the phrase “the Athens of South Norwalk.”
12. Fay, interview; Schwed, Where Are the Customers’ Yachts?, xii, 19, 20.
13. CJ, Barnaby, 21, 25 Feb., 24, 25, 9 Apr. 1945, all in Barnaby #5, 34, 38, 87, 88, 74.
14. New Haven Office of the FBI, “David Johnson Leisk, wa. Crockett Johnson,” 27 Feb. 1952, 8. FBI-CJ; The Independent, 13 Feb. 1946, 2, Reel 4625, Carl Zigrosser Papers (microfilm), Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; For the People’s Health.
15. U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Un-American Activities, Review, 41; Ben Goldstein to sponsor, 18 Aug. 1945, reel 5167, frames 669, 670, Kent Papers; letterhead and list of sponsors, Milton Wolff to Shirley Johnson, 6 Dec. 1945, reel 5155, frame 181–182, Kent Papers; Stamford Shopper, 9 Aug. 1945; New Haven Office of the FBI, “David Johnson Leisk, wa. Crockett Johnson,” 27 Feb. 1952, 8, FBI-CJ.
16. RK to UN, [early July 1945], RK Papers-HC.
17. RK, “Suggestion for a Movie for Adults from a Book for Children, The Great Duffy,” 1, 2, 3, 6, RK Papers-NCLC.
18. UN, “File Ruth Krauss,” 2 Nov. 1945, “Ruth Krauss 1943–1950,” RK Papers-HC.
19. Hannah Baker to CJ, 2 Nov. 1945, Barnaby Fan Mail II, CJ Papers-SI; “Escape Artist,” 49–50; CJ to Theodore E. Ferro, 16 Dec. 1946, CJ to Jack Morley, 16 Dec. 1946, both in CJ Papers-ERK.
1. CJ, “Assorted Facts about Crockett Johnson,” Barnaby (Pocket Books, 1946), 362.
2. “Ickes for Free Speech,” 14; “Noted Professionals Back May Day,” 4.
3. Lieberman, Strangest Dream, 10; New Haven Office of the FBI, “David Johnson Leisk, wa. Crockett Johnson,” 28 July 1950, 5–6, New York Office of the FBI, “David Johnson Leisk, wa. Crockett Johnson,” 31 July 1950, 2, both in FBI-CJ; “New Yorkers Are Moving”; “Win the Peace for Whom?”; Shielfs, “600 at Win-Peace Parley,” 7.
4. CJ, Barnaby, PM, 26 Aug. 1946, 19.
5. Barney Josephson to CJ, 4 May 1946, CJ Papers-ERK; “RKO Will Produce ‘Barnaby,’” 9; “Two Plays Tonight,” 34.
6. Barney Josephson to CJ, 4 May 1946, CJ Papers-ERK; Hamilton, interview; “Two Plays Tonight,” 34; Seeley, “Barnaby’s Coming to Town,” 14; Jerome Chodorov, Crockett Johnson’s Barnaby and Mr. O’Malley (script, 1946), I-39, 2–58, in possession of Thomas Hamilton.
7. “Plan of the Book (The Following Aren’t Titles; Just Contents),” n.d., RK Papers-HC.
8. Little, “For Small Children,” 4; Fischer, review of The Great Duffy, 3; review of The Great Duffy, Virginia Kirkus’ Bookshop Service, 490; RK, untitled short story (about the writing of The Great Duffy), 29, box 7, folder 242, RK Papers-NCLC.
9. Hamilton, interview; Sam Zolotow, “Canada Lee,” 10; Jerome Chodorov to Terry Josephson, 15 Apr. 1992, in possession of Terry Josephson; Hamilton, interview; unidentified clipping, 7 Oct. 1946, in possession of Thomas Hamilton; CJ to Barney Josephson, ca. Sept. 1947, CJ Papers-ERK.
10. RK to UN, [first half of 1947?], RK Papers-HC; “Where,” 91, 6, 103, 111; Greenwich Time, 27 Dec. 1946, qtd. in New Haven Office of the FBI, “David Johnson Leisk, wa. Crockett Johnson,” 28 July 1950, 4, New Haven Office of the FBI, “David Johnson Leisk, wa. Crockett Johnson,” 28 July 1950, 5, both in FBI-CJ; “Plans Reception,” 12; “Increase Seats,” 1, 12; “Debate on Peace Formula, 1, 12; “Wallace Raps,” 1, 6.
11. UN to RK, 11 July 1947, RK to UN, [early July 1947], both in RK Papers-HC; Dorothy A. Bennett to RK, 26 June 1947, box 2, folder 46, RK Papers-NCLC.
12. CJ to Barney Josephson, ca. Sept. 1947, CJ, draft of telegram to Barney Josephson and James Proctor, [Feb. or July?] 1947, CJ to Kay Van Riper, 4 Sept. 1947, all in CJ Papers-ERK.
13. “Where,” 117–18; “This Is the Kind of Book I Like”; Waugh, Comics, 306, 309, 310.
14. NS to author, [Mar. or Apr. 2001]; “Where,” 119; Baby Talk, in possession of NS.
15. “Where,” 47; McMahon, interview. For some of the 1947–52 period, Johnson appears to have left all or most of the work to Morley. In February 1949, for example, the strip is credited only to Morley.
16. Becker, review of The Growing Story, 14; Darling, review of The Growing Story, 16A; Gerard, review of The Growing Story, 42; review of The Growing Story, Virginia Kirkus’ Bookshop Service, 335.
1. Nona Brown, “It’s Been a Tough Winter,” E9; “City’s Snow Costs,” 28; Tracy, “Climatological Data,” Dec. 1947, 94, Jan. 1948, 23, Feb. 1948, 23; “Where,” 2; James, qtd. in Perry, Thought and Character, 355.
2. “Where,” 1, 11, 37.
3. Ibid., 9, 10, 12.
4. Ibid., 4–6, 7, 7a–c, 25, 93.
5. Ibid., 94, 41, 42, 44, 45.
6. McNell and McNell, interview; “Where,” 29, 27.
7. “Where,” 64–65.
8. Ibid., 20, 21.
9. Jackie Curtis and O’Hara, interview; “Where,” 18.
10. “Where,” 18, 16, 17, 77–81, 109, 110.
11. “Where,” 22, 42, 55; Hopps, interview.
12. “Where,” 37.
13. Ibid., 49; Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson, 211; CJ, Barnaby, 8 Dec. 1948.
14. “Where,” 31, 35–36; “Wallace Returns,” 2; “Group from Connecticut,” 1; New Haven Office of the FBI, “David Johnson Leisk, wa. Crockett Johnson,” 28 July 1950, 5, FBI-CJ; “We Are for Wallace,” 32; Wallace, qtd. in Culver and Hyde, American Dreamer, 457.
15. “Where,” 87; Furman, “Johnston Stresses,” 32; “Aid to Family Life,” 22; Marcus, Golden Legacy, 79.
16. “Where,” 36–37, 83–86, 88, 89.
17. Furman, “Johnston Stresses,” 32; Truman, “President’s Speech,” 10; Truman, “Statement”; Masters and Masters, Barnaby: A Play for Children in Two Acts; Mabel McKee, “‘Barnaby’ Pleases in Its First Run,” Terre Haute Tribune, 3 May 1948, CJ Papers-ERK; “Agreement between Samuel French Incorporated 1899 and Robert and Lillian Masters,” CJ Papers-ERK.
18. Barnaby and Mr. O’Malley, presented by Ben Pearson (Radio Recorders, Hollywood, Calif.), acetate disc, CJ Papers-SI; Brown, interview.
19. Milkman, PM, 201, 198, 208; Harvey, “Introducing Walt Kelly,” v.
20. CJ, Barnaby, 29 May–2 June, 26 May 1948.
21. “Text of Wallace Letter,” 14; U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Un-American Activities, Review, 51.
1. U.S. Code 2385 (Advocating Overthrow of Government); Michael Steven Smith, “Smith Act Trials, 1949,” 755–56.
2. “Text of the Platform,” 32; CJ, Barnaby, 21, 22 Sept., 27 Sept.–1 Oct., 11 Oct., 10 Nov. 1948.
3. New Haven Office of the FBI, “David Johnson Leisk, wa. Crockett Johnson,” 28 July 1950, 6, FBI-CJ.
4. CJ, Barnaby, 15, 16, 17, 31 Dec. 1948.
5. Dedman, “Celebrating,” 21; Bechtel, review of Bears, 6; Eaton, review of Bears, 11; Jordan, “Mid-Winter Booklist,” 33–34.
6. RK to UN, [prior to May 1949], RK Papers-HC; Marcus, Golden Legacy, 79–80, 139; Canemaker, Art and Flair, ix.
7. RK to UN, [prior to May 1949], RK Papers-HC; Leonard S. Marcus to author, 25 July 2008; Marcus, Margaret Wise Brown, 58, 84, 85, 168.
8. Marcus, Golden Legacy, 141; Canemaker, Art and Flair, 72–73.
9. RK to UN, 31 Dec. 1948, RK Papers-HC.
10. “Marc Simont”; Pittman, “Finding Aid”; Marcus, “Marc Simont’s Sketchbooks”; Simont, interview.
11. Elizabeth Ring Hennefrund to Adolf Dehn, 20 July 1961, reel 287, frame 133, Adolf and Virginia Dehn Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Adolf Dehn, handwritten note on H. Harvard Arnason’s telegram to Dehn, 13 Jan. 1949, Dehn Papers; Parke, “Culture Sessions,” 1, 44, 45, 46, 47; O’Connor, “News,” 438–40; Price, Threatening Anthropology, 118; “Pickets Denounce Soviet, Communism,” 1, 3; “2 ‘Peace’ Meetings,” 1, 47; Parke, “Global Unity Call,” 1–4; Lieberman, Strangest Dream, 33. On 16 Mar. 1949, Harper sent Ruth’s contract for Flower in the Snow (The Happy Day) to her at Dehn’s address (RK Papers-HC).
12. “1000 Notables,” 2, 11; U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Un-American Activities, Review, 2, 9, 20, 47, 54, 57.
13. CJ, Barnaby, 7–12 Mar. 1949.
14. “Secretary, Department of Books for Boys and Girls” to RK, 16 Mar. 1949, RK Papers-HC; “Where,” 93, 108, 113; RK, manuscript page of The Happy Day sent to Marc Simont, in possession of Marc Simont; Hirschman, “1998 May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture,” 362–77. Susan Carr married in September 1959 and after 1964 was known professionally as Susan Carr Hirschman.
15. RK, manuscript page of The Happy Day sent to Simont, in possession of Marc Simont; Simont, interview.
16. Hirschman, interview; review of The Happy Day, Atlantic Monthly, 103; Bechtel, review of The Happy Day, 6; Moore, review of The Happy Day, 520–23.
17. Winn, “How a Family,” 12; review of Big World, Bulletin of the Children’s Book Center, 16–17; Palmer, review of Big World, 14; Blasco, review of Big World, 1917; review of Big World, San Francisco Chronicle, 6.
18. RK to UN, Mar. 1949, RK Papers-HC.
19. Ibid., [early 1949].
20. CJ to William Morris Jr., 1 Dec. 1949, Sidney Buchman to CJ, 14 Nov. 1949, “A Formula for Some Required Revision,” all in CJ Papers-ERK.
1. FBI-CJ.
2. Hoover, Masters of Deceit, 83, 86.
3. FBI-CJ; New Haven Office of the FBI, “David Johnson Leisk, wa. Crockett Johnson,” 10 Nov. 1950, 5, FBI-CJ.
4. Trubowitz, interview.
5. CJ, Barnaby, 15 May 1950.
6. UN to RK, 8 May 1950, RK Papers-HC; New Haven Office of the FBI, “David Johnson Leisk, wa Crockett Johnson,” 28 July 1950, 5, 1, Baltimore Office of the FBI, “David Johnson Leisk, wa.,” 18 Nov. 1950, 1–2, both in FBI-CJ.
7. Graetz, interview.
8. Bechtel, review of The Backward Day, 9; Buell, review of The Backward Day, 36.
9. Gesell, First Five Years, 55; RK to UN, [June or July 1951?], RK Papers-HC.
10. RK to UN, 5 Jan. 1951, RK Papers-HC; Hopkins, “Ruth Krauss [and] Crockett Johnson,” 122.
11. Lanes, Art, 42, 40; Braun, “Sendak Raises,” 47, 49; Sendak, interview; Harms, “Interview,” 8.
12. Sendak, interview; Sendak, “Ruth Krauss and Me,” 287; A Hole Is to Dig draft, RK Papers-NCLC; Lanes, Art, 42.
13. CJ, “The Five-Inch Shelf: Tiny Golden Books as Miniature ‘Sets of Classics’ for Younger Children,” 2–4, RK Papers-NCLC.
14. U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Un-American Activities, Report; Cronan, “Washington Close-Up,” A12; New Haven Office of the FBI, “David Johnson Leisk, wa,” 9 May 1952, 2–3, FBI-CJ; Mellen, Kay Boyle, 336–37; Elizabeth Ring Hennefrund to author, 11 Sept. 2004; Price, Threatening Anthropology, 120.
15. Simon, interview; RK to UN, 3 Oct. 1951, UN to RK, 8 Oct. 1951, both in RK Papers-HC; Sendak, “Ruth Krauss and Me,” 289.
16. RK to UN, 8 Jan. 1952, RK Papers-HC; UN, Dear Genius, 44; Sendak, “Ruth Krauss and Me,” 288.
17. Sendak, interview; Sendak, “Ruth Krauss and Me,” 289.
18. Review of Bundle Book, Virginia Kirkus’ Bookshop Service, 575; Lindquist and Andrews, review of Bundle Book, 403; Palmer, review of Bundle Book, 42; UN to RK, 29 Nov. 1951, RK Papers-HC.
19. Marcus, Margaret Wise Brown, 261; UN to RK, 15 Nov. 1951, RK Papers-HC.
20. CJ, Barnaby, 5, 7, 31 Jan., 2 Feb. 1952.
21. CJ to Charles Fisher, 11 Feb. 1952, in possession of Chris Wheeler; Dwight Marvin to CJ, 12 Dec. 1951, Barnaby Fan Mail II, CJ Papers-SI; Ray Armstrong to CJ, 11 Feb. 1952, CJ Papers-SI.
22. Brown University, Pembroke College, Brun Mael, 1953, RK Papers-NCLC.
23. NS, interview; Tayler, “Barnaby’s Creator,” B5.
24. Palmer, “Bewildered Kangaroo,” 52.
25. Buell, review of A Hole Is to Dig, 31; Lindquist, review of A Hole Is to Dig, 315; A Hole Is to Dig, dust jacket.
26. Sendak, interview.
27. Hahn, interview; RK to UN, [26 Aug. 1952?], RK Papers-HC; Graetz, interview; “Deaths [Leisk, Mary],” 23.
28. Mickenberg, Learning, 33; Fay, “Ruth Ida Krauss,” 31.
29. Mickenberg, Learning, 142, 15; SAC, New Haven to Director, FBI, 20 Dec. 1954, FBI-CJ.
1. Lund and Lund, interview; Lichtenstein, interview; Marion Schnabel to author, 20 Jan. 2003; Schnabel, interview; “ILWU’s Kent Tangles With McCarthy,” The Dispatcher, 10 July 1953, reel 5211, frame 0658, Kent Papers.
2. Willcox, interview; Roger Willcox, “President’s Report: Welcome to our 50th Anniversary Celebration,” in Village Creek, 1.
3. Openheimer, reminiscence, in Village Creek, 13; Seidman, reminiscence, in Village Creek, 30; Willcox, interview.
4. Simon, interview; Garment, interview.
5. Dan Richter, interview; Levine, interview.
6. Mellen, Kay Boyle, 359, 361, 365, 378, 373, 400; Elizabeth Ring Hennefrund to author, 11 Sept. 2004. Hennefrund recalls meeting Krauss and Johnson in 1956 or 1957.
7. “Jack A. Goodman,” 27; Trubowitz, interview; Charles Lederer, in Jack A. Goodman, 11; Peter Schwed, in Jack A. Goodman 5; Elizabeth Ring Hennefrund to author, 11 Sept. 2004; Searchinger, interview.
8. Feiffer, interview; Feiffer, Backing into Forward, 241.
9. Kieran, review of A Very Special House, 97; Haviland, review of A Very Special House, 452–53.
10. Tyler, “As an Author Sees,” B4; Sendak, interview; Marcus, interview.
11. Marcus, Margaret Wise Brown, 279; NS, interview.
12. Is This You?, sketches by RK and CJ, Series II, Box 10, RK Papers-NCLC.
13. Is This You?, sketches by CJ, Series II, Box 10, RK Papers-NCLC
14. Buell, review of Is This You?, 28; review of Is This You?, Bulletin of the Children’s Book Center, 9; Bechtel, review of I’ll Be You, 32; Buell, review of I’ll Be You.
15. Tyler, “As an Author Sees,” B4.
16. Donlon, review of How to Make an Earthquake, 15; Palmer, review of How to Make an Earthquake, 24; review of How to Make an Earthquake, Bulletin of the Children’s Book Center 4; Mrs. Donn Grinn to Harper and Brothers, 18 Jan. 1955, RK Papers-HC; Hopkins, “Ruth Krauss [and] Crockett Johnson,” 123.
17. UN to RK, 15, 21 Sept. 1954, Mary Russell to RK, 21 Sept. 1954, RK to UN, [Sept. 1954], all in RK Papers-HC.
18. Gene Wallace death certificate, in possession of NS; “Gene Wallace,” 24; NS, interview; McMahon, interview; NS to author, July 2004.
19. NS to author, July 2004, [Mar. or Apr. 2001], 13 Aug. 2008.
20. RK to UN, [Sept. 1954] (two letters), UN to RK, 21 Sept. 1954, all in RK Papers-HC; RK to Claudia Lewis, 20 Sept. 1954, archives, Bank Street College of Education, New York.
1. Else Frank interview; Harold Frank, interview.
2. Mickenberg, Learning, 142.
3. UN, Dear Genius, 83; A[nn] P[owers], reader’s report for Harold and the Purple Crayon, 23 Nov. 1954, CJ Papers-HC.
4. UN, Dear Genius, 83, 84.
5. New Haven Office of the FBI, “David Johnson Leisk, wa. Crockett Johnson Security Matter—C,” 20 Dec. 1954, 1, 2, FBI-CJ; Philbrick, I Led 3 Lives; “Request for Payment,” Harper and Brothers, 20 Dec. 1954, CJ Papers-HC.
6. Director, FBI, “David Johnson Leisk, wa Security Matter—C,” 4 Jan. 1955, New Haven Office of the FBI, “David Johnson Leisk, wa. Crockett Johnson Security Matter—C,” 24 Feb. 1955, Director, FBI, “David Johnson Leisk, wa Security Matter—C,” 8 Mar. 1955, all in FBI-CJ.
7. Mellen, Kay Boyle, 382–83; New Haven Office of the FBI, “David Johnson Leisk, wa. Crockett Johnson Security Matter—C,” 22 Apr. 1955, FBI-CJ.
8. Director, FBI, “David Johnson Leisk, wa Security Matter—C,” 5 May 1955, New Haven Office of the FBI, “David Johnson Leisk, wa. Crockett Johnson Security Matter—C,” 16 May 1955, both in FBI-CJ.
9. Tyler, “As an Author Sees,” B4.
10. Ibid.
11. “Personal & Otherwise,” 23; CJ to UN, 2 Feb. 1955, CJ Papers-HC; CJ, “Fantastic Companions,” 32–34; Stacy V. Jones, “Inventor,” 22; Tayler, “Barnaby’s Creator,” B5.
12. UN to CJ, 13, 28 Oct. 1955, both in CJ Papers-HC.
13. Hopkins, “Ruth Krauss [and] Crockett Johnson,” 121; Tayler, “Barnaby’s Creator,” B5; New Haven Office of the FBI, “David Johnson Leisk, wa. Crockett Johnson,” 28 July 1950, 18, FBI-CJ; Searchinger, interview; Simon, interview; Trubowitz, interview; Marinsky, interview.
14. UN to CJ, 13 Oct. 1955, CJ Papers-HC.
15. Mickenberg, Learning, 33.
16. Haviland, “Crockett Johnson,” 362–63; Buell, “Traveler,” 34.
17. Dove, “Rita Dove,” 70; Van Allsburg, “Books I Remember.”
18. Doty, interview; Tayler, “Barnaby’s Creator,” B5.
1. “Draws Anything”; CJ to UN, [13 Nov. 1955], CJ Papers-HC.
2. Martin, “Ruth Krauss,” 427, 428, 432, 434.
3. Sendak, interview.
4. Review of Charlotte and the White Horse, Horn Book, 363; Palmer, “Milky Way,” 47; Kinkead, review of Charlotte and the White Horse, 205; review of Charlotte and the White Horse, New York Herald Tribune, 5; “Collector’s Item,” 7.
5. UN to CJ, 14 Dec. 1955, CJ to UN, 24 Dec. 1955, both in CJ Papers-HC.
6. Tayler, “Barnaby’s Creator,” B5; Beckwith, “Monkey Business,” 4; Tyler, “As an Author Sees,” B4.
7. Henry Miller to Harper, 22 Nov. 1956, RK Papers-HC; UN to Henry Miller, 5 Dec. 1956, in UN, Dear Genius, 88.
8. CJ to SC, 28 Jan. 1956, SC to CJ, 30 Jan. 1956, both in CJ Papers-HC.
9. CJ to UN, 4 Apr. 1956, CJ to Miss Hahn, 14 Sept. 1957, Dorothy B. Fiske to Juliet Piggott, 25 Oct. 1956, Dorothy B. Fiske to Kurt E. Michaels, 26 June 1956, all in CJ Papers-HC.
10. UN, handwritten note on CJ to UN, 4 Apr. 1956, Bunny Aleshire, reader’s report on Terrible Terrifying Toby and Time for Spring, 5 Apr. 1956, both in CJ Papers-HC.
11. CJ to UN, 11 June 1956, UN to CJ, 23 July 1956, both in CJ Papers-HC.
12. Sendak, interview; NS, interview; Jackie Curtis and O’Hara, interview; IJW, 20 Oct. 1979.
13. UN to CJ, 31 May 1956, CJ to UN, 11 June 1956, both in CJ Papers-HC; Irving L. Fisher to Norman W. Schur, 24 July 1956, RK Papers-NCLC; Mickenberg, Learning, 176.
14. Sendak, interview.
15. Ibid.
16. NS to author, 3 Mar. 2001; [“Little Girl and Little Stream”] typescript and manuscripts, series II, box 11, folder 395, RK Papers-NCLC; Michaels and Michaels, interview; Schneider, Psychoanalyst and the Artist, 18–19, 55, 230.
17. UN to CJ, 14, 29 Nov. 1956, both in CJ Papers-HC.
18. CJ to UN, 15 Dec. 1956, UN to CJ, 15 Jan. 1957, both in CJ Papers-HC.
19. Lieberman, Strangest Dream, 136.
20. Ambrose, Eisenhower, 348, 313, 349.
21. Palmer, review of I Want to Paint, 38; Libby, review of I Want to Paint, 6; Hormel, review of I Want to Paint, 7; IJW, 19 Oct. 1979; RK to UN, 12 Nov. 1970, RK Papers-HC.
22. Beckwith, “Monkey Business,” 4; Sendak, interview.
1. Simon, interview.
2. UN to RK, 30 Apr. 1957, JR, “Tales from Children,” handwritten notes, n.d., SC, memo, 30 July 1957, all in RK Papers-HC.
3. “Jack A. Goodman”; Landau, interview; Amateau, “Sidney Landau”; NS to author, 24 June 2009.
4. Berry, review of Monkey Day, 3242–43; Woods, review of Monkey Day, 59; Libby, review of Monkey Day, 11; review of Monkey Day, Virginia Kirkus’ Service, 410.
5. Bader, “Crockett Johnson,” 437; Buell, review of Harold’s Trip to the Sky, 51; Goodwin, review of Harold’s Trip to the Sky; review of Harold’s Trip to the Sky, Booklist.
6. CJ to UN, 12 Oct. 1957, CJ to Mary [Russell], 28 Sept. 1956, both in CJ Papers-HC.
7. Jim Blake to Fitz, [2 July 1957], UN to Jim Bradley, 2 July 1957, UN to Jim Blake, 2 July 1957, all in CJ Papers-HC.
8. Rose Moudis to David Piel 31, Oct. 1957, Rose Moudis to CJ, 31 Oct. 1957, CJ to UN, 15 Dec. 1957, all in CJ Papers-HC; Schindel, interview.
9. CJ to UN, 29 June, 15 Dec. 1957, both in CJ Papers-HC.
10. “Arms Are to Hug,” Tide, 25 Jan. 1957, 11, “A Faucet Is to Splash,” Tide, 9 Nov. 1956, 39, “A Shovel Is to Dig,” Tide, 28 Sept. 1956, 43, Frank S. MacGregor to the Joint Ethics Committee, 28 May 1957, Tran Mawicke to Frank S. MacGregor, 6 June 1957; Frank S. MacGregor to Tran Mawicke, 14 June 1957, all in RK Papers-HC.
11. Belkin and Belkin, “Going through a Phrase Dept.”
12. Sendak, “Ruth Krauss and Me,” 286; Dorothy B. Fiske to Gerald Pollinger, 4 Dec. 1956, RK to UN, [Dec. 1957?], UN to RK, 6 Dec. 1957, all in RK Papers-HC; RK to Barthold Fles, 18 May 1958, 2, box 2, folder 58, RK Papers-NCLC.
13. CJ to UN, 14 June 1957, 14 May 1958, CJ to Bob Cheney, 30 Jan. 1958, Louise F. Haynie to Mr. Bradley, 6 May 1958, all in CJ Papers-HC.
14. RK to UN, n.d., box 2, folder 65, RK Papers-NCLC; RK, “A Little Boy Said to His Mother,” box 11, folder 393, RK Papers-NCLC.
15. Elizabeth Ring Hennefrund to author, 11 Sept. 2004; Brooks, interview.
16. Is This You?: Notes and sketches by RK, series II, box 10, folder 349, RK Papers-NCLC; Children’s Record Guild, copy of unsigned contract with Raymond Abrashkin, 8 Mar. 1950, courtesy of David Bonner; Snodgrass, “Tact,” 419.
17. UN to CJ, 11, 12 Dec. 1957, both in CJ Papers-HC; UN to RK, 9 Dec. 1957, RK Papers-HC.
1. RK, “Child’s Eye Visual,” series 6, folder 193, RK Papers-NCLC.
2. UN to CJ, 14 Mar. 1958, CJ Papers-HC.
3. CJ to UN, 26 Feb. 1958, SC, memo, [13 or 14 Mar. 1958], both in CJ Papers-HC.
4. CJ to UN, 7 Apr. 1958, UN to CJ, 12 May 1958, both in CJ Papers-HC.
5. RK to Barthold Fles, 18 May 1958, 2, box 2, folder 58, RK Papers-NCLC.
6. “50 Years Ago”; Chusid, Mischievous Art, 21, 22, 55, 95, 97.
7. Helen M. Lothian to CJ, 13 Mar. 1958, CJ to UN, 13 Apr. 1958, CJ to Helen M. Lothian, 13 Apr. 1958, UN handwritten note, n.d., all in CJ Papers-HC.
8. Sendak, “Magic Beach: An Appreciation,” in CJ, Magic Beach; Blechman, Dear James, 3–4; CJ, quoted in “Animating Harold.”
9. Sendak, interview.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Charlip, interview; Remy Charlip, “Ruth Krauss” (reminiscence read at her memorial service), 1993, in possession of Remy Charlip.
13. Charlip, interview; Charlip, “Ruth Krauss”; UN to RK, 8 Sept. 1958, RK Papers-HC.
14. Review of Harold at the North Pole, Kirkus; review of Harold at the North Pole, Oakland Tribune; review of Harold at the North Pole, New York Times Book Review.
15. CJ to UN, 26 Feb. 1958, CJ to SC, 15 July, [before 14 Aug.] 1958, SC to CJ, 17 July 1958, all in CJ Papers-HC.
16. RK to SC, n.d., RK Papers-HC; Soby, Arp, 7.
17. “Where,” 106.
18. Mickenberg, Learning, 12, 287 n. 35; Adelson, interview.
19. Mickenberg, Learning, 12.
20. Schneider, interview.
21. RK to UN, 12 Jan. 1959, RK Papers-HC.
1. RK to UN, 12 Jan. 1959.
2. Lehman, Last Avant-Garde, 206; Koch, Collected Poems, 260, 263, 262; “‘A Hole Is to Dig?’ Harold Should Know,” 2.
3. Gerard Malanga, interview by Gerald Hausman, n.d., Bookstore Press, tape 5, BP Records.
4. CJ to SC, 27 Mar. 1959, CJ Papers-HC.
5. UN, Dear Genius, xxvi.
6. CJ to UN, 7 Apr. 1959, CJ Papers-HC.
7. SC, reader’s report on Magic Beach, 8 Apr. 1959, CJ to UN, 28 Apr. 1959, both in CJ Papers-HC.
8. CJ to UN, 31 July 1959, Ann Jorgensen, memo, 3 Aug. 1959, both in CJ Papers-HC. Ann Jorgensen married in September 1959 and subsequently was known as Ann Jorgensen Tobias.
9. Searchinger, interview.
10. CJ to UN, 7 Aug. 1959, RK Papers-HC; “‘A Hole Is to Dig? Harold Should Know,” 2; RK to UN, 31 Aug. 1959, RK Papers-HC.
11. RK to UN, 15 Sept. 1959, RK to SC, 3 Apr. 1960, both in RK Papers-HC; Sendak, interview.
12. Sendak, interview.
13. RK to UN, [31 Aug. 1959], 30 July 1960, 1960, all in RK Papers-HC.
14. Lehman, Last Avant-Garde, 184; RK, “From Poet in the News,” Bards’ Bugle 1.1, RK Papers-NCLC, repr. in There’s a Little Ambiguity, n.p.
15. Lehman, Last Avant-Garde, 83, 240; RK, There’s a Little Ambiguity, n.p.
16. Lehman, Last Avant-Garde, 233–34; RK, “If Only,” box 1, Gerard Malanga Papers, Syracuse University Library, Special Collections Research Center; Breton, Selected Poems, 23; Koch, Rose, lxi.
17. RK, “Four Prose Poems,” x, RK Papers-NCLC; RK to UN, [Dec. 1959–Jan. 1960], RK Papers-HC.
18. Antonio Frasconi, interview; Mischa Richter, interview; Murray, Musician, 209–10.
19. Gould, “Vet., Youngster Join Forces”; “Tele Review.”
20. RK to UN, [March?] 1960, RK Papers-HC; CJ to UN, 14 Mar. 1960, CJ Papers-HC.
21. RK to UN, [early Jan. 1960?], RK Papers-HC.
22. CJ to UN, 25 Jan. 1958, 2, CJ Papers-HC; Hilberman, interview; Barrier, Hollywood Cartoons, 513–15; Canemaker, “David Hilberman,” 17–21.
23. CJ to UN, 14 May 1958, CJ to SC, 24 Mar. 1959, both in CJ Papers-HC; CJ to Lou Bunin, 24 Apr. 1959, n.d., both in possession of Amy Kaiman.
24. Unsigned to UN, 1 Apr. 1960, notes headed “toes are to wiggle / arms are to hug with” at top, RK to SC, 3 Apr. 1960, all in RK Papers-HC; “Next Sunday,” X7.
25. RK to UN, 23 Apr. 1960, RK Papers-HC; “Rowayton Arts Center.”
26. Review of Open House for Butterflies, Virginia Kirkus’ Service, 288; Woods, review of Open House for Butterflies, 30; Miles, review of Open House for Butterflies, 37–38.
27. Ambrose, Eisenhower, 573; Jackie Curtis, interview.
28. RK to UN, 21 June, 30 July 1960, both in RK Papers-HC; RK to Paul Carroll, 4, 21 June 1960, both in box 2, folder 58, RK Papers-NCLC.
29. AR, calendar for July 1960, AR Papers; RK to UN, 30 July 1960, RK Papers-HC; Lee Hall, Abe Ajay, 20, 46–47.
1. RK to UN, Thursday [early August?] 1960, RK Papers-HC; NS to author, [3 Mar. 2001].
2. E. Y. Harburg to CJ, 26 Sept. 1960, RK Papers-NCLC.
3. Erwin, “‘Barnaby’ Returns,” 52; CJ to UN, 1 June 1960, CJ Papers-HC.
4. Annotated list of CJ’s works, Hall Syndicate, Estate of RK, Cohen & Wolf, Bridgeport, Conn.; “American Cyanamid.”
5. Antonio Frasconi, interview; Brooks, interview.
6. Trubowitz, interview; Antonio Frasconi, interview.
7. RK to UN, 5 Feb. 1961, UN to RK, 28 Mar. 1961, both in RK Papers-HC.
8. Marcus, Minders, 220; RK to UN, Easter 1961, Dec. 1962, both in RK Papers-HC; Marcus, Golden Legacy, 178.
9. RK to UN, Apr. 1961, RK Papers-HC.
10. CJ to UN, 11 Dec. 1960, CJ Papers-HC.
11. SC, jacket copy for Harold’s Republic, 19 Apr. 1961, CJ Papers-HC.
12. CJ to UN, 1 July, 12 Oct. 1961, 9 June 1962, UN to CJ, 6 July 1961, 11 July 1962, SC, reader’s report on The Lion’s Own Story, 20 June 1962, Ann Jorgensen Tobias, reader’s report on The Lion’s Own Story, 22 June 1962, all in CJ Papers-HC; “End of the Conversation”; “Prognosis”; “Post Time.”
13. RK to UN, 5 June 1961, UN to RK, 8, 28 June 1961, all in RK Papers-HC.
14. RK to UN, 3 July 1961, UN to RK, 6 July 1961, both in RK Papers-HC; RK, Cantilever Rainbow.
15. CJ to UN and SC, 17 July 1961, CJ Papers-HC; Willard Maas to Kay Boyle, 21 Aug. 1961, RK Papers-NCLC; “Schedule cont.,” 2, box 9, “Writer’s Conference” folder, RK Papers-NCLC; Gussow, Edward Albee, 185–86.
16. Orgel, interview.
17. Orgel, interview; Searchinger, interview; Gene Searchinger to author, 28 Feb. 2004.
18. RK to UN, [Mar.–Apr. 1963], RK Papers-HC.
19. CJ to Robert M. Hall, 2 Jan. 1962, CJ Papers-ERK.
20. CJ to UN, [7 May 1962], Ann Jorgensen Tobias, reader’s report on Magic Beach, 8 May 1962, UN to CJ, 9 May 1962, all in CJ Papers-HC.
21. Review of Mama, I Wish I Was Snow, Kirkus, 15 Jan. 1962, 53; Woods, review of Mama, I Wish I Was Snow, 5; review of Mama, I Wish I Was Snow, Christian Science Monitor, 2B.
22. RK to UN, [received 26 Mar. 1962], [late Apr. 1962?], UN to RK, 2 May 1962, all in RK Papers-HC.
23. RK to UN, [May 1962?], [May–June 1962], both in RK Papers-HC; Schneider, interview.
24. RK to UN, [May–June 1962], RK Papers-HC; Schneider, interview.
25. Gerard Malanga, interview by Gerald Hausman, n.d., tape 5, BP Records; Gussow, Edward Albee, 185; RK to Ted Berrigan, 22 July 1963, box 1, Ted Berrigan Papers, Syracuse University Library, Special Collections Research Center; RK to UN, [summer 1962], RK Papers-HC; “What They Say about Wagner Literary Magazine,” box 31, RK Papers-NCLC.
26. CJ to UN, 29 Aug. 1962, 12 Jan. 1963, Ann Jorgensen Tobias, reader’s report for Harold’s ABC, [Sept. 1962], SC, reader’s report for Harold’s ABC, 5 Oct. 1962, typeset text for Harold’s ABC, UN to CJ, 23 Jan. 1963, all in CJ Papers-HC.
27. RK to UN, 4 Dec. 1962, RK Papers-HC.
28. Jackie Curtis and O’Hara, interview; New School Poets (Fall 1962), RK Papers-NCLC; Social Security Death Index search for Meyer Zinman.
29. “The Living Theatre Presents a Reading of Poetry of Wagner Poets” (flier), Box 31, RK Papers-NCLC.
30. CJ to UN, 12 Dec. 1962, CJ Papers-HC.
31. RK to UN, 4 Dec. 1962, UN to RK, 5 Dec. 1962, both in RK Papers-HC; Schneider, interview.
32. UN to CJ, 9 May 1962, CJ Papers-HC; Marcus, Minders, 220, 222.
1. CJ to AR, 27 Apr. 1963, N/69-100, frame 697, AR Papers.
2. Ibid.; Gussow, Edward Albee, 185; “Visions of Warhol.”
3. RK, draft of “This Breast,” with comments from Frank O’Hara, RK Papers-NCLC; Koch, “Thank You,” in Collected Poems, 137; Gerard Malanga interview by Gerald Hausman, n.d., tape 5, BP Records. “This Breast” also appeared in There’s a Little Ambiguity over There among the Bluebells (1968) and as the title poem in This Breast Gothic (1973).
4. Jean Karl to RK, 28 Mar., 9 Apr. 1963, both in box 1, folder 3, RK Papers-NCLC.
5. UN to Maurice Sendak, 31 Jan., 19 Feb. 1963, in UN, Dear Genius, 153–58; Lanes, Art, 92; Sendak, interview; Jennifer M. Brown, “Rumpus”; Marcus, Caldecott Celebration, 20–21; Ludden, “Conversation.”
6. Untitled document beginning “A Beautiful Day was the first poem-play,” RK Papers-NCLC; Remy Charlip, “Ruth Krauss” (reminiscence read at her memorial service), 1993, in possession of Remy Charlip.
7. “Phyllis Rowand,” 25; NS, interview; David Johnson Leisk, Last Will and Testament, Probate Court, Westport, Conn., 2.
8. Pablo Frasconi, interview; Miguel Frasconi, interview; Antonio Frasconi, interview.
9. Sutherland, review of Bouquet of Littles, 96; Taylor, “Reviewer Picks,” B16; R.M.B., “Dolls and Dogs,” K22-A; Buell, review of The Lion’s Own Story, 20; Heins, review of Harold’s ABC, 495; review of Harold’s ABC, New York Times Book Review; review of Harold’s ABC, Kirkus; review of Harold’s ABC, Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books; CJ to UN, 2 Feb. 1963, CJ Papers-HC.
10. BD to RK, 11 Dec. 1963, CJ to UN, 13, 26 Dec. (two letters) 1963, UN to CJ, 20 Dec. 1963, all in CJ Papers-HC.
11. RK, “Poem-Plays,” 45; RK to UN, [Jan. 1964], RK Papers-HC.
12. Loretta Fasolina to RK, 3 Feb. 1964, RK to Loretta Fasolina, 8 Feb. 1964, RK Papers-NCLC.
13. CJ to UN, [Jan or Feb.] 1964, CJ Papers-HC.
14. SC, handwritten comment on note by UN, n.d., UN to CJ, 6 Mar. 1964, both in CJ Papers-HC.
15. UN to CJ, 6 Mar. 1964, CJ to UN, 6 Oct. 1964, both in CJ Papers-HC; Marcus, Minders, 230–31; Sendak, Caldecott and Co., 146; UN to RK, 6, 11 Feb. 1964, RK to UN, 9 Feb. 1964, all in RK Papers-HC.
16. CJ to BD, 27 Mar. 1964, CJ to UN, 8 Apr. 1964, UN, handwritten marginalia on letter from CJ, 8 Apr. 1964, all in CJ Papers-HC; RK to BD, [late Apr.–early May 1964], RK to UN, [early May 1964], both in RK Papers-HC; Frank O’Hara to RK, 20 Apr. 1964, box 1, folder 35, RK Papers-NCLC; Simon, interview.
17. Walter, “Theatre,” 10.
18. RK to Ted Berrigan, 2, 12 July 1964, Ted Berrigan Papers, Syracuse University Library, Special Collections Research Center; Michael Benedikt to RK, 7 July 1964, Box 9, RK Papers-NCLC; Poland and Mailman, Off Off Broadway Book, xix–xxi.
19. Gibson, review of Little King, 2090.
20. Rose, interview.
21. Landau, interview; Sidney Landau to author, 14 Jul, 2 Aug. 2005; CJ to Frank Boyle, 16 July 1964, in possession of Sidney Landau.
22. Antonio Frasconi, interview; “Chronologies of the Conflict.”
23. Wild Dog 2.10 (Sept. 1964); Wild Dog 2.11 (28 Oct. 1964); Nadada 1 (Aug. 1964).
24. CJ to UN, 19 Sept. 1964, CJ Papers-HC; SC, “Straight Home from School” (reader’s report), 25 Sept. 1964, UN to CJ, 8 Oct. 1964, both in CJ Papers-HC.
25. Gerald Harrison to RK, 14 May 1979, RK Papers-NCLC.
1. Small, Antiwarriors, 14; “Assembly of Men and Women in the Arts, Concerned with Vietnam,” N/69-101, Frame 82, AR Papers.
2. Small, Antiwarriors, 20; “End Your Silence,” E5; Jackie Curtis, interview.
3. RK to UN, 8 June 1965, RK to UN, [before 17 May 1965], both in RK Papers-HC.
4. RK to UN, 8 June, [20 or 21 June] 1965, RK to BD, [received 6 July 1965], all in RK Papers-HC; CJ to BD, 26 July 1965, CJ Papers-HC.
5. CJ to BD, 26 July, [late June–early July], [mid-June] 1965, BD to RK and CJ, 4 June 1965; all in CJ Papers-HC.
6. RK to UN, [13 July 1965], RK Papers-HC; UN to CJ, 13 Oct. 1955, 30 Dec. 1964, both in CJ Papers-HC.
7. CJ to UN, 31 May 1965, CJ Papers-HC; RK to UN, 8 June 1965, RK Papers-HC.
8. RK to Ted Berrigan, [1964 or 1965], Box 1, Ted Berrigan Papers, Syracuse University Library, Special Collections Research Center; RK to UN, 8 June 1965, UN to RK, 10 June, 28 July 1965, all in RK Papers-HC.
9. RK to UN, 8 June 1965, UN to RK, 10 June 1965, both in RK Papers-HC; Morrison, review of Cantilever Rainbow, 5527; review of Cantilever Rainbow, Kirkus, 986; Richard Howard, “What Comes Naturally.”
10. Fraser, interview.
11. O’Doherty, “World,” 4; review of Castles in the Sand, Kirkus Reviews, 171; Izard, review of Castles in the Sand, 2396.
12. Kluger, “Hi-Jinks and Low,” 16; Hurwitz, review of Emperor’s Gifts, 4606; Finne, “Emperor’s Gifts,” 18; McCauley, “Heroes,” B3; review of Gordy and the Pirate, Kirkus Reviews, 1116; review of Gordy and the Pirate, Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, 13.
13. NS, interview.
14. Document beginning “A Beautiful Day was the first poem-play,” RK Papers-NCLC; Hopkins, “Ruth Krauss and Crockett Johnson,” 124.
15. Michael Smith, “Theatre Journal,” 25; Lawrence Ferlinghetti to RK, 9 Nov. 1965, RK Papers-NCLC.
16. Document beginning “Lawrence Kornfeld has directed at Judson since 1961,” Ferlinghetti to RK, 9 Nov. 1965, both in RK Papers-NCLC.
17. CJ to AR, 27 Feb. 1966, N/69-101, frame 241, AR Papers.
18. Ibid., frames 241–42; Miguel Frasconi, interview.
19. CJ to AR, 27 Feb. 1966, N/69-101, frame 241, AR Papers; AR, interview.
20. Poland and Mailman, Off Off Broadway Book, xxii; “Judson Poets’ Theater Productions.”
21. “The Ruth Krauss Library” (news release), n.d., RK to UN, [received 18 Apr. 1966], both in RK Papers-HC; CJ to BD, 19 Apr. 1966, CJ Papers-HC.
22. RK to UN, [received 18 Apr. 1966], RK Papers-HC; “Painting No. 3: Similar Triangles (Thales),” Stroud Notes; “Painting No. 30: Relativity in Time and Space (Einstein),” Stroud Notes; author’s notes from discussion with and slides shown by J. B. Stroud, Charleston, S.C., 6 Jan. 2000; Stroud, “Crockett Johnson’s Geometric Paintings,” 88; Burndy Library flyer, Bern Dibner to CJ, 18 Apr. 1968, both in RK Papers-NCLC; NS, interview.
23. RK to UN, [July 1966], RK Papers-HC; “Transcendental Curve (Wallis),” Stroud Notes; CJ, “On the Mathematics,” 97.
24. Review of Happy Egg, Publishers Weekly, 263; review of Happy Egg, School Library Journal, 71.
25. CJ to Lena Young de Grummond, 27 Feb. 1966, Finding Aid for RK Papers, both in RK Papers, de Grummond Collection, University of Southern Mississippi; UN to CJ, 18 Aug. 1966, CJ Papers-HC.
26. “To the President,” 12; “On Vietnam,” E5–E7.
27. RK to UN, 8 Sept. 1966, RK Papers-HC.
28. RK, Dummy A, “Little Woman,” box 11, folder 409, RK Papers-NCLC.
29. RK to UN, 23 Jan., [late Feb.–early Mar. 1967], RK to UN, 15 May 1967, all in RK Papers-HC; list accompanying form letter from Debbie Louis to Lynd Ward, 14 Mar. 1967, Lynd Ward Papers, reel 3519, frame 394, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
1. Invitation to opening of Abstractions of Abstractions, exhibit at Nechemia Glezer Gallery, Box 35, RK Papers-NCLC; photos taken at Glezer Gallery, 5 Apr. 1967, in possession of Jackie Curtis.
2. Jackie Curtis to author, 12 Jan. 2003; Jackie Curtis and O’Hara, interview; Howard Levi to CJ, 29 Mar. 1971, Mathematical Correspondence, folder 3, CJ Papers-SI; Sparber, interview.
3. Michael Benedikt, blurb, Abstractions of Abstractions, CJ Papers-SI; B[enedikt], “Reviews and Previews”; “Creator of ‘Barnaby’ in First Serious Show.”
4. Abstractions of Abstractions; “Creator of ‘Barnaby’ in First Serious Show.”
5. Landau, interview.
6. RK to UN, 23 Jan., 10 Feb. 1967, UN to RK, 27 Feb. 1967, all in RK Papers-HC.
7. RK to UN, 14 Mar., 2 Apr., 15 May 1967, RK to BD, [8 or 9] Oct. 1967, all in RK Papers-HC; Lanes, Art, 151; Sendak, interview.
8. RK to BD, [8 or 9] Oct. 1967, RK Papers-HC.
9. CJ to Jackie Curtis, 4 Oct. 1967, in possession of Jackie Curtis; RK to UN, 19, 24 Sept. 1967, RK to BD, [8 or 9] Oct. 1967, all in RK Papers-HC; Landau, interview.
10. RK to BD, [8 or 9] Oct., 13 Nov. 1967, RK Papers-HC; Dan Richter, Moonwatcher’s Memoir; CJ to Mischa Richter, 8 Oct. 1967, Mischa Richter Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Dan Richter, interview; CJ to BD, 15 Oct. 1967, CJ Papers-HC.
11. Jackie Curtis and O’Hara, interview; RK to Barbara Borack, [Jan. or Feb.] 1970, RK Papers-HC.
12. Review of What a Fine Day For …, Kirkus, 1317; Gibson, review of What a Fine Day For …, 680.
13. Stroud, “Crockett Johnson’s Geometric Paintings,” 83.
14. “Painting No. 35: Squared Lune (Hippocrates),” “Painting No. 67: Squared Lunes (Hippocrates),” “Painting No. 68: Squared Lunes (Hippocrates),” all in Stroud Notes.
15. “Painting No. 92: Biblical Squared Circles,” Stroud Notes; CJ to NS, 30 May 1970, in possession of NS; Andy Rooney, interview; Mischa Richter, interview; Simon, interview.
16. RK, “Lost,” “Poem,” and “This Breast,” 162–63; Robert Baker, review of There’s a Little Ambiguity, 565; Bermel, “Closet Openings,” 156–57.
17. CJ, “On the Mathematics,” 97, 99.
18. H. Martyn Cundy to CJ, 23 May 1968, Mathematical Correspondence, CJ Papers-SI.
19. Sarah Weiner to CJ, 22 Nov. 1968, Mathematical Correspondence, CJ Papers-SI; “Crockett Johnson’s Art,” 16; Antonio Frasconi, interview; Searchinger, interview.
20. Searchinger, interview.
21. Cal Goodman to CJ, 9 July, 24 Sept., 8, 13 Dec. 1971, 14 Jan., 26 Sept. 1972, 10 Jan. 1973, all in RK Papers-NCLC; Searchinger, interview.
22. RK to Barbara Borack, 6 May 1969, RK to Ellen Rudin, 1969, both in RK Papers-HC; RK to UN, [summer] 1969, HarperCollins Archives.
23. RK to UN, [summer] 1969, HarperCollins Archives.
24. John Ashbery to RK, 29 Oct. 1969, series I, box 2, folder 31, RK Papers-NCLC.
25. Alyssa Crouse to author, 10 Sept. 2009; “Westport Arts Center”; “If Only …: A Ruth Krauss Gala!” (flyer), RK Papers-NCLC.
26. Dick Higgins to RK, 15 Mar. 1970, RK Papers-NCLC.
27. Wendy Newton to author, 21 Nov. 2007; Dmitri Belser to author, 1 Dec. 2008; Stroud, “Crockett Johnson’s Geometric Paintings,” 85.
28. RK to UN and Barbara Borack, [late] Apr. 1970, RK Papers-HC; CJ to NS, 30 May 1970, in possession of NS; RK to Barbara Borack, [late May–early June], [31 Aug.], 5, 8, 20 Sept. 1970, all in RK Papers-HC; CJ to NS, 30 May 1970, RK to NS, 16 June 1970, both in possession of NS; Alex and Else Gluckman to CJ and RK, Aug. 1970, Mathematical Correspondence, CJ Papers-SI; RK to David Silverstein, 13 Oct. 1970, Box 1, Folder 26, BP Records; CJ to Florence and Lou Bunin, 23 Dec. 1970, in possession of Amy Kaiman.
29. Sutherland, review of I Write It, 52; N.M., “Things That Rhyme,” B4; RK to Barbara Borack, Dec. 1969, RK Papers-HC.
30. RK to UN, 12 Nov. 1970, RK Papers-HC.
1. Sainer, “Krauss, Ruth (Ida),” 449–51; “Krauss, Ruth (Mrs. Crockett Johnson),” in American Authors, 357; “Krauss, Ruth Ida,” in Author’s and Writer’s Who’s Who, 468; “Krauss, Ruth,” in Foremost Women, 356; “Krauss, Ruth,” in Contemporary Authors, 553; Blake, interview.
2. Harry Marinsky, interview; Hopkins, “Ruth Krauss [and] Crockett Johnson,” 121; RK to BD, 6 July 1971, RK Papers-HC; CJ to Florence and Lou Bunin, 20 July 1971, in possession of Amy Kaiman.
3. Gene Deitch to author, 28 Oct. 2000; Dart, “History”; Deitch, “Picture Book Animated,” 147; Gene Deitch to Morton Schindel, 28 Feb. 1971, RK Papers-NCLC.
4. CJ to UN, 18, 30 Nov. 1970, UN to CJ, 23, 24 Nov. 1970, all in CJ Papers-HC.
5. “Holland America Mail and Cable Information: 1971 North Cape Cruises, S.S. Statendam” (brochure), RK Papers-HC; RK and CJ [postcard signed by both but written by CJ] to UN, [7–8 Aug. 1971], RK Papers-HC; RK to David Silverstein, 21 Aug. 1971, BP Records.
6. Stroud, “Crockett Johnson’s Geometric Paintings,” 86, 91–92; “Painting No. 91: Circle Squared to 0.0001,” “Painting No. 94: Rectangle Squared on an Euler Line,” both in Stroud Notes.
7. Mathematical Correspondence, CJ Papers-SI.
8. Deed of sale, June 1972, Probate Court, Westport, Conn.; Howard Levi to CJ, 4 July 1972, CJ Papers-SI; Beatrice de Regniers to RK, 15 Aug. 1972, RK to UN, 11 June 1972, both in RK Papers-HC.
9. RK to Elizabeth Ring Hennefrund, in possession of Elizabeth Ring Hennefrund; RK to Gerald Hausman, [10 Sept. 1972], BP Records.
10. RK, interview by Valerie Harms, ca. 1972, Tape 4, BP Records.
11. RK, “Preliminary Statement to a Statement on Poetics,” 1, 5, box 20, folder 696, RK Papers-NCLC.
12. Clay, “Theatre,” 14; Henry, “Levels of Reality.”
13. Colby, interview; Valerie Harms to author, 23, 24 Oct. 2002.
14. Gerald Hausman, “One,” 1–2, 3, 6–7, BP Records.
15. Holmes, interview; Janet Krauss, interview; Janet Krauss to author. 18 Apr. 2010.
16. RK to Gerald Hausman, 2 Dec. 1972, [Dec. 1972], 25 Jan. 1973, all in BP Records.
17. Gene Deitch to CJ, 22 June 1973, RK Papers-NCLC; CJ to UN, 27 May 1971, CJ Papers-HC.
18. RK to Gerald Hausman, Aug. 1973, [Nov. 1972], both in BP Records.
19. RK to Gerry [Hausman], Lorry [Hausman], David [Silverstein], and Mariah [Hausman], [early Sept. 1973], BP Records; “Stroud Studies,” 7; Stroud, “Crockett Johnson’s Geometric Paintings,” 94–95.
20. RK to Gerry [Hausman], Lorry [Hausman], David [Silverstein], and Mariah [Hausman], [early Sept. 1973], RK to Gerald and Lorry Hausman, [23 Sept. 1973], both in BP Records; RK to BD, 13 Oct. 1973, RK to Ellen Rudin, Oct. 1973, both in RK Papers-HC.
21. UN, Dear Genius, xxxvii–xxxviii; Kuskin, review of Everything under a Mushroom, 46; review of Everything under a Mushroom, Publishers Weekly, 72; Komaiko, “3–6’s,” F2.
22. CJ to BD, 14 Apr., 9 May 1974, CJ to Ellen Rudin, 30 May 1974, all in CJ Papers-HC.
23. Douglas A. Quadling to CJ, 9 June 1974, Mathematical Correspondence, CJ Papers-SI.
24. CJ to BD, 8 Jan. 1974 [1975], CJ Papers-HC; Stanley Smith to CJ, 25 Dec. 1974, Mathematical Correspondence, CJ Papers-SI.
1. UN to BD, 10 Feb. 1975, HarperCollins Archives.
2. RK to Gerald and Lorry Hausman, 8 Feb. 1975, BP Records; Lund and Lund, interview.
3. Searchinger, interview; UN to BD, 10 Feb. 1975, HarperCollins Archives; RK to UN, 17 Mar. 1975, RK Papers-HC.
4. Searchinger, interview; Hahn interview.
5. Jackie Curtis, interview; Jackie Curtis and O’Hara, interview; “Westporter’s Painting,” 7; “Geometric Abstraction,” 22.
6. Rose, interview.
7. Hahn, interview.
8. “Crockett Johnson, Cartoonist,” 38.
9. Hahn, interview.
1. Hahn, interview; RK to Gerald Hausman, Lorry Hausman, and David Silverstein, 5 Aug. 1975, BP Records.
2. UN to BD, 21 July 1975, UN to Shirley Blanchard, 16 Oct. 1975, both in RK Papers-HC.
3. Fran Pollak to author, Jan. 2006; Fran Pollak, “Poems and Pickles in Westport,” Sunday Connecticut Post, c. 1976, in possession of the author; Ina Chadwick to author, 19 Oct. 2009; Shaw, interview.
4. Information provided by Robin Lynn Rausch, 2005; “MacDowell Colony.”
5. Sally Fisher to author, 2 Apr. 2011; Ernst, interview; Trubowitz, interview.
6. BD to Robert I. Fitzhenry, 7 July 1976, RK Papers-HC; Stewart I. Edelstein to RK, 9 Mar. 1976, Stewart I. Edelstein to Joseph Rosenbloom, 9 Mar. 1976, F. McAllister to and contract with RK, all in RK Papers-NCLC.
7. Review of Little Boat, Publishers Weekly, 99; Gregory, review of Little Boat, 84.
8. Binnie Klein, interview.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Chadwick, interview; Binnie Klein, interview; Hahn, interview.
12. IJW, 20 Oct. 1979.
13. Binnie Klein, interview.
14. Pablo Frasconi, interview.
15 Graetz, interview; Linda Graetz to author. 4 Nov. 2009.
16. Chadwick, interview; Donald Hall, “Third Hand,” 25; review of Somebody Spilled, Kirkus, 324; review of Somebody Spilled, Publishers Weekly, 370.
17. Chadwick, interview.
18. Hedy White, interview.
19. IJW, 19, 20 Oct. 1979.
20. RK to UN, 1 Jan. 1944, RK Papers-HC; Binnie Klein, interview; Shaw, interview; Janet Krauss, interview; Sally Dimon to author, 28 June 2010; Heinrich, interview.
21. Peggy Heinrich, recollection of RK, RK memorial service, July 1993, cassette tape provided by Maureen O’Hara. Review of Minestrone, Publishers Weekly, 55; Stein, review of Minestrone, 606; Sanhuber, review of Minestrone, 94; review of Minestrone, Kirkus, 1346–47.
22. Binnie Klein, interview.
23. RK, “The Enclosed Collection of Poems,” [1983], box 2, folder 65, RK Papers-NCLC; RK, “Small Black Lambs Wandering in the Red Poppies,” box 13, folder 519, RK Papers-NCLC.
24. Harvey Weiss, recollection of RK, RK memorial service, July 1993, cassette tape provided by Maureen O’Hara.
25. Chadwick, interview.
26. Ibid.; Heinrich, interview; Kramer, interview; Schindel, interview.
27. Phyllis Hoffman to RK, 14 Jan., 20 Feb., 21 Aug. 1987, RK to Phyllis Hoffman, 2, 11 Jan., 1 Feb. 1987, all RK Papers-NCLC; RK, ABC Notes, [1960], box 9, RK Papers-NCLC.
28. Phyllis Hoffman to RK, 31 Mar. 1987, RK Papers-NCLC
29. Nazareth, interview.
30. Graetz, interview; Hahn, interview.
31. Jon Ehrlich to RK, 6 Nov. 1990, RK Papers-NCLC; John Ehrlich, Robin Pogrebin, and Jane Shepard, Harold and the Purple Crayon script, final draft, Jan. 1992, courtesy of Theatreworks USA; Ehrlich, interview.
1. NS to author, July 2004.
2. Wood, interview.
3. Ibid. Janusz Czaderna continued to live with his wife and daughter at Ruth’s house, but he was rarely around, disappearing in the mornings, wandering the beaches, and coming back when it suited him.
4. Ibid.
5. Graetz, interview.
6. Wood, interview.
7. Ibid.; BD, interview; Dan Richter, interview.
8. Janet Krauss, “A Good Visit” (poem), courtesy of Janet Krauss; Janet Krauss, “The Clenched Hand” (poem), courtesy of Janet Krauss.
9. Jackie Curtis and O’Hara, interview; Sendak, interview.
10. Wood, interview.
11. “Ruth Krauss, 91,” D22.
12. Harms, “Interview,” 9.
13. Hahn, interview; RK, Last Will and Testament, 28 Feb. 1991, Probate Court, Westport, Conn.
14. Sendak, interview.
15. RK, memorial service, July 1993, cassette tape provided by Maureen O’Hara; Sendak, “Ruth Krauss and Me,” 287.
16. Hahn, interview.
17. Edelstein, interview.
1. CJ, “Barnaby,” in Strange Stories, ed. Spiegelman and Mouly, 43–51; Hignite, “Daniel Clowes,” 31; Clowes, Ice Haven, 33; Comics Journal 210 (Feb. 1999).
2. “Harold and the Purple Crayon,” in Everything I Need to Know, 113; “Auteur-Illustrateur,” 2; Meyers, “Cold War Illustrated,” 24; “Features”; Thacher Hurd to author, 19 June 2005; Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman, Zits, 1 Feb. 2009.