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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.
CHAPTER 21
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.
CHAPTER 22
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 C
J, 8 Oct. 1964, both in CJ Papers-HC.
25. Gerald Harrison to RK, 14 May 1979, RK Papers-NCLC.
CHAPTER 23
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.
CHAPTER 24
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.
CHAPTER 25
1. Sainer, “Krauss, Ruth (Ida),” 449–51; “Kr
auss, 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.