by Philip Nel
Barkis, 149–50, 192
Barnaby (book), 64, 67, 70–71
Barnaby (cartoon), 251
Barnaby (character), 6, 60, 62, 74, 79–80, 91, 93, 98, 109, 114, 128–29, 156, 173, 178–79, 191, 216, 257
Barnaby (comic strip), 3, 6, 7, 32, 60–65, 67–68, 70–74, 77, 79–82, 86–87, 90–92, 97, 106, 108–9, 113–14, 117–18, 128–29, 135, 156, 158, 165, 184, 195–97, 199, 202–3, 225, 231–32, 257, 274–75, 286n
Barnaby (play), 104–5
Barnaby (radio), 81–82, 105
Barnaby (screenplay), 117, 197
Barnaby and Mr. O’Malley (book), 73, 77
Barnaby and Mr. O’Malley (play), 79–81, 91–93, 95–96
Barnaby and Mr. O’Malley (television pilot), 148, 184, 191, 228
Barnaby Quarterly, 82–83, 91
Barnhardt, Stephanie, 90
Barr, Alfred, 232
Barry, Philip, 46
Barry, Richard, 38
“Battle Hymn of the Republic, The,” 133
Bauhaus, 28
BBC–TV, 233
Bear Hunt, 275
Bears, 109–10, 154, 274
Beautiful Day,A, 210, 223, 226, 241
Bechtel, Louise Seaman, 110, 115, 122, 142
Becker, Maurice, 45, 58, 219
Becker, May Lamberton, 97
Beckett, Samuel, 184
Beckwith, Ethel, 76
Bedtime for Frances, 173
Beginner Books, 184
Beim, Jerrold, 66
Beim, Lorraine, 66
Beistle, Mary Alice “Mell,” 182
Belgium, 235, 246
Bemelmans, Ludwig, 178
Benedict, Ruth, 51–52, 64, 68, 111
Benedikt, Michael, 215, 221, 231
Benét, William Rose, 70
Beowulf, 249
Berkeley, Busby, 96
Berkson, Bill, 217, 239
Bernard, Paul, 85–86
Bernstein, Leonard, 79, 87
Berrigan, Ted, 215, 217, 221, 239
Bible, 166, 235–36
Biblical Squared Circles, 235
Big and Little, 266–67, 274
Big World and the Little House, The, 108, 111–12, 115, 194
Billy and the Unhappy Bull, 112
Birthday Party, The, 158, 213
Black, Irma Simonton, 110
Blackfeet Indian Nation, 51–52, 100
Blackmer, J. A., 58
Blair, Mary, 110–11
Blake, William, 154
Blanc, Mel, 191
Blechman, R. O., 178, 195
Blegvad, Erik, 203
Blondie, 65
Bloom County, 7
Bloor, Ella Reeve, 49
Blue Boy, 114
Blue Ribbon Puppies, The, 166, 173
Bodley Head, 234
Bontemps, Arna, 77
Book and Magazine Writers Union, 34–35
Book Week, 222–23
Booke, Sorrell, 228
Booklist, 77, 164
Bookstore Press, 247, 249, 251
Borack, Barbara, 242
Borgman, Jim, 275
Bornschein, Franz C., 14, 26–27
Bosco, 193
Boston, 32, 93
Boston Globe, 248
Boston Phoenix, 248
Boston University, 242, 248
Boswell, James, 270
Boudin, Jean, 205, 229, 261
Boudin, Leonard, 126, 261
Bouquet of Littles, A, 205, 211
Bourke-White, Margaret, 61
Boyle, Francis X. “Frank,” 216
Boyle, Kay, 125, 133, 147, 162, 170, 194, 204, 219, 229
Boy’s Life, 103
Bradbury, Ray, 219
Brager, Albert A. (RK’s stepfather), 31, 39
Brager, Blanche Krauss. See Krauss, Blanche
Brainard, Joe, 215, 239
Brandman’s Paints, 238
Brando, Marlon, 135
Branley, Franklyn M., 158
Bransten, Richard, 56
Brecht, George, 237
Breton, André, 191, 196, 261
Bridgeport, 238
Bridgeport Sunday Herald, 76
Bridgeport Sunday Post, 231
Brindze, Ruth, 65
Brooklyn College, 225
Brooks, Pat, 170
Brotherhood of Man, The, 93
Browder, Earl, 45, 47
Brown, Elsie R., 15
Brown, Jared, 105
Brown, John, 105
Brown, Marcia, 178
Brown, Margaret Wise, 90, 98, 111–12, 127–28, 139, 179, 203
Brown University, 129
Brown v. Board of Education, 161
Browne, Anthony, 275
Brown-Elliott Productions, 105
Bruges, 235
Brussels, 235
Buchman, Sidney, 117
Buckmaster, Henrietta, 91
Bucks County (Pennsylvania), 39–40
Budapest, 9
Budenz, Louis, 125
“Budgetism: Opiate of the Middle Class,” 158
Buell, Ellen Lewis, 80, 121, 130, 140, 151, 164, 211
Buffalo, 38
Bukowski, Charles, 217, 237
Bulletin of the Children’s Book Center, 140, 211, 223
Bundle Book, The, 116, 127–28, 274
Bunin, Lou, 117, 193, 197
Burg, Johanna (CJ’s grandmother), 16
Burg, Mary. See Leisk, Mary
Burg, William (CJ’s grandfather), 16
Burndy Engineering Company, 226
Burndy Library, 226–27
Burroughs, William S., 199, 201
Bus Transportation, 33
“But regimentation won’t hamper your individuality, Eustace; this Fascism racket will give real freedom to our artistic souls” (cartoon), 43
C, 215
Cadiz, 251
Café La MaMa, 221
Café Society, 80
Caffe Cino, 215, 226
Cage, John, 247
Caldecott Honor, 115, 137, 178
Caldecott Medal, 5, 122, 178, 213–14
Calder, Alexander, 79
Caldwell, Erskine, 61
Cale, John, 237
California, 37
Calvin and Hobbes, 171, 274
Camp Walden, 15, 25–26, 121, 202
Canada, 111, 196, 213, 264
“Cancion Tonta,” 203
Canfield, Cass, Sr., 206
Caniff, Milt, 64
Cannes, 252
Cantilever Rainbow, The (book), 221–22
Cantilever Rainbow, The (play), 221, 223
capitalism, 45
Capp, Al, 7
Captain Kangaroo, 212–13
Carmen Jones, 93
Carmines, Al, 223, 233
Carr, Susan. See Hirschman, Susan
Carroll, Jim, 239
Carroll, Lewis, 31, 71, 98, 235, 251
Carrot Seed, The (book), 72, 78–80, 88, 98, 109, 127, 177, 194, 213
Carrot Seed, The (record), 121, 170
Cartoonists Guild, 46
Casablanca, 252
Casson, Mel, 58
Castles in the Sand, 222
Cat in the Hat, The, 4, 184
Catholic Church, 80
Cavallon, Giorgio, 182
CBS, 191
Central Park, 10
Chadwick, Ina, 263, 265–66
Chagall, Marc, 79
Chalmers, Mary, 242
Chamberlain, Neville, 42, 49, 53, 76, 197
Charlip, Remy, 179–80, 210, 219, 223, 226, 233, 237, 241, 272
Charlotte and the White Horse, 143, 148, 154
Charlotte’s Web, 4
Chekhov, Anton, 179
Cherbourg, 235
Chicago, 32
Chicago Tribune, 74, 115, 154–55, 211
Child Study Association, 95
Children’s Book Week, 127, 145
children’s books, business, 4, 135, 206, 213, 246, 252, 266–67. See also individual titles o
r authors
China, 111
Chodorov, Edward, 91
Chodorov, Jerome, 91–93, 96
Christian Science Monitor, 110, 142, 162, 203, 242, 252
Christianity, 236
Chukovsky, Kornei, 6
Churchill, Winston, 91
Chwast, Jacqueline, 165
Cinderella, 178
City College of New York, 247
Clay, Carolyn, 248
Cleveland, 38
Clifton, Lucile, 249
“Climb Up Mount Washington As Told to Me By Ham, The,” 26
Clowes, Daniel, 7, 275
Cobh (Ireland), 239
Codrescu, Andrei, 239
Cohasset, 198
Cold War, 91, 106, 113, 131, 216
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 23
Collier’s, 54, 56–57, 61, 63
Colorado, 71
Colored Comic Continuities, 59
Columbia Pictures, 92
Columbia University, 51, 63–64, 183, 282n
Comics, The, 96
Comics Journal, 275
Commonweal, 78
Commonwealth College, 49
communism, 35, 106
Communist Party, 34, 36, 45, 47, 49, 91–92, 108–9, 113, 119, 125, 147, 152, 197
communists, 36, 43, 88, 91, 113, 125, 147, 236
Community Cooperative Nursery School, 133, 163
Cone, Claribel, 14
Cone, Etta, 14
Connecticut, 59–61, 68, 71, 79–80, 85–86, 92, 95, 101, 103, 133, 189, 191, 202, 220, 226, 238, 242, 273
Connecticut Feminists in the Arts, 249
Conroy, Jack, 49, 77
Constable (UK publisher), 156, 176
“construction for a regular heptagon, A,” 246–47, 251–52, 254
Cook, Bernadine, 158
Cooper Union, 24, 32
Copenhagen, 246
Copland, Aaron, 79, 106, 113
Corona (Queens), 17–20
Corso, Gregory, 199
Corwin, Norman, 79
Coughlin, Charles E., 43, 47
Crichton, Kyle, 47
Crockett, Davy, 19
Crum, Bartley, 106
cummings, e.e., 221
Cundy, H. Martyn, 238
Curious George, 66
Curtis, Jackie, 194, 231, 255, 257
Curtis, Karen, 257
Curtis, Ken, 194
Czaderna, Bianca, 269–72
Czaderna, Janusz, 269, 302n
Czaderna, Joanna, 269–71
Czechoslovakia, 42, 238
Dada, 222
Daily Worker, 35–36, 47, 91–92
Daladier, Édouard, 53
d’Allessio, Greg, 58
Danny and the Dinosaur, 4, 184
Darien, 59–61, 73, 80, 102–3, 140
David Copperfield, 13
Davis, Benjamin J., 88, 108, 119
Day the Cow Sneezed, The, 176
de Grummond, Lena Y., 228
de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection, 228
de Regniers, Beatrice Schenk, 181
de Saint-Exupery, Antoine, 213
Degnon, Michael, 18
Dehn, Adolf, 45, 104, 113, 225, 288n
Deitch, Gene, 245–46, 251–52
Deitch, Zdenka, 251
DeJong, Meindert, 111, 214
Delaware, 93, 226
Delos (Greek island), 220
Democratic Party, 43, 108, 152, 197
Denmark, 156, 239
Denmark (Maine), 15, 25–26, 202
Denning, Michael, 36, 43
Descartes, René, 225, 228
Dewey, Thomas T., 74, 109
Dial, 201
Dibner, Bern, 227
Dick Prescott, 13
Dick Tracy, 65
Dickens, Charles, 7, 13
Dicks, Barbara, 220
Dies Committee, 120
Discobolus, 114
Disney, 110, 124, 193
Dixiecrats, 109
Donlon, Rae Emerson, 142
Dorn, Edward, 217
Dos Passos, John, 44
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 179
Dougal’s Wish, 112
Dove, Rita, 5, 151
Downtown Community School, 126
Draper, Muriel, 45
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 216
Druid Hill Park, 10–12
“Drunk Boat,” 183
Du Bois, W. E. B., 106, 113
Duchess County (New York), 39
Duck Amuck, 5
“Duet,” 204
Dukes of Hazzard, 228
Dwarf Long-Nose, 202
Dyer, Jane, 274
dynamic symmetry, 29–30, 53
Eaton, Anne Thaxter, 110
Edelstein, Stewart, 273
Edinburgh, 234, 246
“Egret, The,” 191
Ehrlich, Jon, 267
Einstein, Albert, 193, 227
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 161
“Elegy in a Country Churchyard,” 170
Elementary English, 153
Eliot, George, 16, 23
Eliot, T. S., 185, 205
Ellen (character), 171, 173, 200, 205, 217
Ellen’s Lion, 16, 171, 173, 180–81, 184, 186, 200, 205, 210–11, 223, 274
Ellington, Duke, 44, 61, 64, 87
Eloise, 4
Elting, Mary. See Folsom, Mary Elting
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 23
Emperor’s Gifts, The, 213, 216, 222–23
End Jim Crow in Baseball Committee, 88
Engineering Research Associates, 74
England, 40–42, 156, 176, 213–14, 220, 233–35, 238, 246, 254
Erikson, Erik, 242
Ernst, Dallas, 194, 195, 231
Ernst, Jimmy, 71, 194, 195, 231
Euclid, 225, 246–47
Eulard, Paul, 196
Evergreen Review, 199
Everything Under a Mushroom, 252
Eyes, Nose, Fingers, Toes, 203, 206, 215, 274
Fabulous Firework Family, The, 176
Fairfield, 273
Fala (FDR’s dog), 76–77
Family Circus, 7
“Fantastic Companions,” 148
F.A.O. Schwarz, 122, 170
Fascism, 43–44, 47, 61, 64
Fast, Howard, 79, 87, 91, 106, 120
“Faust,” 239
Fawcett, 201
FBI, 3–4, 106, 108, 119–20, 125, 131–33, 145–48, 152
Fearing, Kenneth, 44
Feiffer, Jules, 135–37, 182, 195, 229
Feiwel, Jean, 266
Fellig, Arthur, 61
Felsenstal, Peter, 249
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 219, 221, 223–25, 241
Ferrer, Jose, 91
Ferro, Matilda, 79
Ferro, Ted, 79, 90, 97
Fiedler, Leslie, 220
Field, Marshall, III, 62, 106
Fields, W. C., 62, 64
Fight Against War and Fascism, 44
Filene’s, 32
Film Designers, 193
Finders Keepers, 122
Finland, 239
Fire Cat, The, 184
Fire Island, 54, 229, 234
First Story, The, 112
Fischer, Marjorie, 94
Fisher, Charles, 129
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 18
Flanders, Harley, 238, 254
Flora, Jane, 176, 194, 205
Flora, Jim, 176, 194
Florida, 38, 216
Flushing (Queens), 32–33
Fluxus, 237
“Follow the Leader” (cartoon), 58–59
Folsom, Franklin “Dank,” 35, 181, 229
Folsom, Mary Elting, 4, 35, 126, 181–82, 229
For the People’s Health, 87–88
Ford, 56
Ford, Charles Henri, 237
Ford, James W., 45
Forsythe, Robert. See Crichton, Kyle
Fortune, 81, 158
Foster, Constance J., 65–66
Foster, William Z., 119
France, 100, 235, 267
Franckenstein, Joseph, 133, 145
Frank, Bonnie (CJ’s niece), 157
Frank, Else (CJ’s sister), 16–17, 19, 145
Frank, Harold (CJ’s nephew), 145, 157, 210
Frank, Leonard (CJ’s brother-in-law), 145
Frank Morgan Show, 81
Frank, Tony (CJ’s nephew), 157, 210
Frankfurt, 9
Frasconi, Antonio, 193, 210, 217, 219, 221, 225
Frasconi, Leona, 210, 225
Frasconi, Miguel, 210, 225
Frasconi, Pablo, 210, 225, 261
Fraser, Betty, 222
Freeman, Don, 61
Freeman, Joe, 36, 44, 132
Free Speech Movement (Berkeley), 217
Friedman, Charles, 92–93
Friend Is Someone Who Likes You, A, 165
Frost, Robert, 170
Frowning Prince, The, 168, 173–75
Futura, 73, 284n
Gabriel over the White House, 43
Gainsborough, Thomas, 114
Gág, Wanda, 130
Gagarin, Uri, 199, 201
Galileo, 227
Galway, 239
Gardner, Martin, 238
Garelick, May, 181
Garlin, Sender, 36
Garment, Martin, 133
Garment, Sylvia, 133
Garnow, George, 227
Geisel, Theodor. See Seuss, Dr.
Gellert, Hugo, 44–45, 76, 220
General Electric Theater, 191
“Geometrical Look at √π, A,” 235, 238, 257
Gerard, Lillian, 97
Gergely, Tibor, 110
Germany, 9, 16, 20–21, 35, 42, 45, 49, 52–53, 238
Gesell, Arnold, 122
Ghost World, 275
Giant Story, The, 181
Gibraltar, 252
Gifford, Joseph, 248
Ginsberg, Allen, 204, 209, 217, 219, 221, 237, 239
Gittelson, Frank, 27
Glengarriff, 246
Glezer Gallery, 231–33, 235
Gluckman, Alex, 238
God and Freud, 176
Goddard, Jean-Luc, 280n
Gold, Harold, 145
Gold, Julius, 259
Golden Books. See Little Golden Books
Golden Ratio, 29
Goldsmith, Nancy, 99
Goldwater, Barry, 216–17
Gone with the Wind, 54
Good Companions, The, 40
Good Housekeeping, 168–69
Good Man and His Good Wife, A, 68–69, 72, 195, 197, 213, 235
Good, Ruth, 249
Goodman, Agnes “Aggie,” 85, 135, 176
Goodman, Calvin J., 238
Goodman, Jack, 85, 135, 163
Goodnight Moon, 203
Gordy and the Pirate and the Circus Ringmaster and the Knight and the Major League Manager and the Western Marshal and the Astronaut and a Remarkable Achievement, 217–18, 223
Gorey, Edward, 140
Goudy, Frederic, 33
Gould, Jack, 191
Graetz, Linda. See Hahn, Linda
Graham, Margaret Bloy, 184
Granville-Smith, Maureen. See O’Hara, Maureen
Graves, Robert, 236
Gray, John, 28
Great Baltimore Fire, 12, 101
Great Depression, 31, 33–34, 38–40, 87, 96
Great Duffy, The, 82–85, 88–89, 94–95, 100, 109