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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.
CHAPTER 26
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.
CHAPTER 27
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.
CHAPTER 28
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.
EPILOGUE
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.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Adolf and Virginia Dehn Papers
Hugo Gellert Papers
Rockwell Kent Papers
Elenore Lust Papers
Ad Reinhardt Papers
Mischa Richter Papers
Stuyvesant Van Veen Papers
Lynd Ward Papers
Carl Zigrosser Papers (microfilm; originals in Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
Aviation Weekly Archives, McGraw-Hill, New York
Camp Walden Archives, Denmark, Maine
Columbia University Archives, Columbiana Library, New York
de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Crockett Johnson Papers
Ruth Krauss Papers
Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore
Maryland Department
Periodicals Department
Estate of Ruth Krauss, Cohen & Wolf, Bridgeport, Conn.
Crockett Johnson Papers
Ruth Krauss Papers
HarperCollins Publishers’ Archives, New York
Crockett Johnson Papers
Ruth Krauss Papers
Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin
Pascal Covici Papers
Harvard University Archives, Cambridge, Mass.
PM Papers
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Communist Party U.S.A. Records
Prints and Photographs Division
Serial and Government Publications Division
Long Island Division,
Queens Borough Public Library, Jamaica, New York
Mandeville Special Collections, University of California at San Diego
Dr. Seuss Collection
Maryland Institute College of Art Historical Archives, Baltimore
Maryland State Archives, Annapolis
Mathematics Division, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Crockett Johnson Papers
McGraw-Hill Archives, New York
National Archives II, College Park, Maryland
New York Public Library, New York
New York University Archives, New York
Northeast Children’s Literature Collection, Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Bookstore Press Records
Ruth Krauss Papers
Parsons School Archives, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Archives Center, Parsons
School of Design, New School University, New York
Peabody Archives, Friedheim Music Library, Peabody Institute, Baltimore
Reference Center for Marxist Studies, New York
Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Cambridge, Mass.
Camp Walden Papers
Syracuse University Library, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse, N.Y.
Ted Berrigan Papers
William Gropper Papers
Granville Hicks Papers
Gerard Malanga Papers
Terry-D’Alessio Private Collection
World War Two Bonds Cartoons (some of which were exhibited as part of Cartoons against the Axis: World War Two War Bonds Cartoons from the Terry-D’Alessio Collection, curated by Sandy Schechter, Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, New York, 8 Oct. 2005–6 Feb. 2006)
University of Delaware Library, Special Collections, Newark
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Remy Charlip
Jackie Curtis
Betty Hahn
Thomas Hamilton
Elizabeth Ring Hennefrund
Amy Kaiman
Sidney Landau
Alice McMahon
Marc Simont
Nina Stagakis
J. B. Stroud
Leone Adelson. 21 Nov. 2001 (telephone), 20 Dec. 2001 (in person).
Isabella Blake. 4 June 2001 (telephone).
Pat Brooks. 17 Sept. 2004 (telephone).
Jared Brown. 16 May 2004 (telephone).
Ina Chadwick. 19 Oct. 2009 (telephone).
Remy Charlip. 23 Mar. 2003 (telephone).
Helen Herz Cohen. 21 July 2005 (in person).
Sas Colby. 15 Oct. 2002 (telephone).
Norman Corwin. 18 Nov. 2008 (telephone).
Jackie Curtis. 18 June 2001 (telephone), 15 Dec. 2004 (in person).
Jackie Curtis and Maureen O’Hara. 18 June 2002 (in person).
Karen Curtis. 1 May 2002 (telephone).
Bianca Czaderna. 3 Feb. 2008 (telephone).
Barbara Dicks. 16 Mar. 2004 (in person).
Roy Doty. 4 Feb. 2006 (telephone).
Stewart Edelstein, 17 June 2002 (in person).
Jon Ehrlich. 24 Oct. 2009 (telephone).
Dallas Ernst, 5 Aug. 2000 (telephone).
Frank Fay. 20 Jun. 2000 (in person).
Jules Feiffer. 16 Sept. 2000 (telephone).
Mary Elting Folsom. 12 Dec. 2001 (telephone).
David Frank. 26 Dec. 2000 (in person).
Else Frank. 26 Dec. 2000, 18, 20 Mar. 2001 (in person).
Harold Frank. 2 November 2000 (telephone).
Antonio Frasconi. 12 Oct. 2000 (telephone).
Miguel Frasconi. 2 Dec. 2007 (telephone).
Pablo Frasconi. 28 Nov. 2007 (telephone).
Betty Fraser. 12 June 2000 (telephone).
Martin Garment. 24 Sept. 2002 (telephone).
Linda Graetz. 1 Nov. 2009 (telephone).
Betty Hahn. 27 June, 6 Aug. 2001, 15 Feb. 2010 (telephone).
Thomas Hamilton. 12 Aug. 2006 (telephone).
Valerie Harms. 12 July 2002 (telephone).
Peggy Heinrich. 30 Mar. 2001, 18 Apr. 2010 (telephone).
David Hilberman. 19 Mar. 2003 (telephone).
Susan Carr Hirschman. 18 Mar. 2004 (telephone).
Syd Hoff. 1 July 2001 (telephone).
Ann Holmes. 13 Apr. 2010 (telephone).
Lee Hopkins. 14 Jan. 2001 (telephone).
Tom Hopps. 4 Apr. 2000, 1 Aug. 2008 (telephone).
Leonard Kessler. 14 Oct. 2002 (telephone).
Bill Kimmel. 1 June 2004 (in person).
Binnie Klein. 10 Jan. 2001 (telephone).
Henry F. Klein. 20 Mar. 2003 (telephone).
Sidney Kramer. 26 Jan. 2006 (telephone).
Janet Krauss. 18 Apr. 2010 (telephone).
Sidney Landau. 16 Feb. 2001 (telephone).
Emily Levine. 25, 31 Jan. 2003 (telephone).
Grace Lichtenstein. 8 July 2002 (telephone).
Sid and Doris Lund. 20 June 2000 (in person).
Leonard Marcus, 12 Jun. 2010 (in person).
A. B. Magil. 19 Aug. 2001 (telephone).
Harry Marinsky. 10 Dec. 2000 (telephone).
Ann McGovern. 18 Jun. 2001 (telephone).
Alice McMahon. 4 Mar. 2001 (telephone).
Bob and Helen McNell. 15 Apr. 2000 (telephone).
Mike and Steffie Michaels. 27 June 2005 (telephone).
George Miller, 28 Jun. 2007 (in person).
Ralph Nazareth. 18 Apr. 2010 (telephone).
Wendy Newton. 23 Nov. 2007 (telephone).
Maureen O’Hara. 10 June 2001 (telephone).
Doris Orgel. 21 Jun. 2006 (telephone).
Nathan Oser. 1 June 2004 (telephone).
Fran Pollak. 24 Jan. 2006 (telephone).
Ad Reinhardt. 22 June 2002 (telephone).
Anna Reinhardt. 2 Dec. 2007 (telephone).
Dan Richter. 28 June 2005 (telephone).
Mischa Richter. 5, 7 Feb., 5, 7, Mar. 2001 (telephone).
Andy Rooney. 16 Oct. 2000 (telephone).
Marge Rooney. 18 Oct. 2000 (telephone).
Gilbert Rose. 19 June 2000 (in person).
Stanley Rubin. 27 Apr. 2006 (telephone).
Warren Sattler. 17 Dec. 2001 (telephone).
Morton Schindel. 26 June 2001 (in person).
Marion Schnabel. 18 Jan. 2003 (telephone).
Elizabeth Schneider. 18 Feb. 2009 (telephone).
Gene Searchinger. 22 June 2002 (telephone).
Maurice Sendak. 21 June 2001, 10 Sept. 2008 (telephone).
Dale Shaw. 11 Apr. 2010 (telephone).
Norma Simon. 20 June 2002 (telephone).
Marc Simont. 12 July 2000 (telephone).
Christopher Skelly. 7 July 2007 (telephone).
Howard Sparber. 27 Nov. 2000 (telephone).
Nina Stagakis. 31 Jan. 2001 (telephone), 30 June 2001 (in person).
Shelley Trubowitz. 7, 14 Aug. 2000 (telephone).
Hedy White. 10 May 2004 (telephone).
Helaine White. 18 May 2004 (telephone).
Roger Willcox. 26 Sept. 2004 (telephone).
Joanna Czaderna Wood. 10 Feb. 2008 (telephone).
Charlotte Zolotow. 26 Mar. 2004 (telephone).
WORKS BY CROCKETT JOHNSON
BOOKS
Barnaby. New York: Holt, 1943.
Harold and the Purple Crayon. New York: Harper, 1955.
Barkis: Some Precise and Some Speculative Interpretations of the Meaning of a Dog’s Bark at Certain Times and in Certain (Illustrated) Circumstances. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956.
Harold’s Fairy Tale: Further Adventures with the Purple Crayon. New York: Harper, 1956.
Harold’s Trip to the Sky: More Adventures with the Purple Crayon. New York: Harper, 1957.
Terrible, Terrifying Toby. New York: Harper, 1957.
Time for Spring. New York: Harper, 1957.
Harold at the North Pole: A Christmas Journey with the Purple Crayon. New York: Harper, 1958.
First published in an abbreviated form as “Harold and the
Big Day,” Good Housekeeping, December 1957.
The Blue Ribbon Puppies. New York: Harper, 1958.
Merry Go Round. New York: Harper, 1958.
Ellen‘s Lion: Twelve Stories. New York: Harper, 1959.
The Frowning Prince. New York: Harper, 1959.
Harold’s Circus: An Astounding, Colossal Purple Crayon Event. New York: Harper, 1959.
Will Spring Be Early? Or Will Spring Be Late? New York: Crowell, 1959.
A Picture for Harold’s Room: A Purple Crayon Adventure. New York: Harper, 1960.
Harold’s ABC: Another Purple Crayon Adventure. New York: Harper, 1963.
The Lion’s Own Story: Eight New Stories about Ellen’s Lion. New York: Harper, 1963.
We Wonder What Will Walter Be? When He Grows Up. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1964.
Gordy and the Pirate and the Circus Ringmaster and the Knight and the Major League Manager and the Western Marshal and the Astronaut and a Remarkable Achievement. New York: Putnam’s, 1965.
The Emperor’s Gifts. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1965.
Castles in the Sand. Illustrated by Betty Fraser. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1965.
Who’s Upside Down? New York: Scott, 1952. Also published as Upside Down. Park Ridge, Ill.: Whitman, 1969.
Barnaby and Mr. O’Malley. New York: Holt, 1944; New York: Dover, 1975.
Barnaby #1: Wanted, a Fairy Godfather. New York: Ballantine, 1985.
Barnaby #2: Mr. O’Malley and the Haunted House. New York: Ballantine, 1985.
Barnaby #3: Jackeen J. O’Malley for Congress. New York: Ballantine, 1986.
Barnaby #4: Mr. O’Malley Goes for the Gold. New York: Ballantine, 1986.
Barnaby #5: Mr. O’Malley, Wizard of Wall Street. New York: Ballantine, 1986.
Barnaby #6: J. J. O’Malley Goes Hollywood. New York: Ballantine, 1986.
Harold’s Purple Crayon Treasury: Five Adventures with the Purple Crayon. Barnes and Noble Books, 1997.
Magic Beach. Appreciation by Maurice Sendak. Afterword by Philip Nel. Asheville, N.C.: Front Street, 2005.
CARTOONS
This list may well be incomplete.
Newtown High School Lantern
All cartoons are signed with a cursive D over a cursive L.
“An Off Day,” Mar. 1921, 25. Attributed to D. J. Leisk.
“Kuku Karl and Hesa Nutt Visit the Museum,” May 1921, 14.
“Newtown H.S.,” May 1921, 24.