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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.
CHAPTER 14
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.
CHAPTER 15
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.
CHAPTER 16
1. Else Frank interview; Harold Frank, interview.
2. Mickenberg, Learning, 142.
3. UN, D
ear 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.
CHAPTER 17
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.
CHAPTER 18
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.
CHAPTER 19
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 t
o 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.
CHAPTER 20
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.