by Philip Nel
Great Gatsby, The, 18
Greece, 220, 223
Greek Myths, The, 236
Greener Than You Tink, 96
Greenville (Delaware), 226
Greenwich Village, 31, 35, 38, 40, 54
Greenwillow, 264, 266
Gregory, Helen, 260
Grey, Thomas, 170
Gropius, Walter, 28
Gropper, William, 44–45, 47, 56, 58, 77, 79, 91, 104, 229
Gross, Leonard, 176
Groth, John, 58
Growing Story, The, 85, 97–98, 109, 120, 194, 274
Guare, John, 248
Guggenheim, 194, 221
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 219
Gulliver’s Travels, 31
Gurney, A. R., Jr., 248
Hagen, Dorothy, 206
Hahn, Betty, 226, 255, 257–58, 260, 267, 272
Hahn, Charles (RK’s uncle), 28
Hahn, Edna (RK’s aunt), 28
Hahn, Georgia, 120
Hahn, Linda (RK’s niece), 120, 210, 261
Hahn, Nancy (RK’s niece), 210
Hahn, Richard (RK’s cousin, a.k.a. Dick), 28, 120, 210, 226, 255, 257–58, 260, 261, 267, 272
Haiti, 113
Hall, Donald, 219, 263
Hall, Robert, 202
Hall Syndicate, 196, 202
Hambidge, Jay, 29
Hamburg (Germany), 16
Hamilton, Tommy, 93–94
Hamish Hamilton (publisher), 176
Hancock, Irving, 13
Happy Day, The, 114–15, 175, 288n
“Happy Days Are Here Again,” 76
Happy Egg, The, 163, 228
Harburg, E. Y., 79, 106, 196, 219
Hardware Poets Playhouse, 215
Harley, Margot, 193
Harms, Valerie, 247, 260, 271
Harold (character), 5, 19, 46, 67, 114, 144–45, 147, 149–56, 162, 164, 168–71, 173, 177–78, 184, 186, 197, 199–200, 204–6, 213, 222–23, 246, 257, 267–68, 275
“Harold and the Big Day,” 167–69
Harold and the Purple Crayon (book), 3, 4, 5, 8, 144–45, 147–53, 155–56, 164, 176, 213, 257, 275
Harold and the Purple Crayon (cartoon), 164, 197
Harold and the Purple Crayon (film), 5
Harold and the Purple Crayon (musical), 267–68
Harold and the Purple Crayon (TV series), 275
Harold and the Purple Crayon (play), 275
Harold at the North Pole, 163, 169, 180
Harold’s ABC, 196, 199–200, 204–5, 211–12
Harold’s Circus, 173
Harold’s Fairy Tale (book), 149, 155, 177, 185, 252, 254–55, 257
Harold’s Fairy Tale (cartoon), 251–52
Harold’s Trip to the Sky, 156, 161–62, 164, 228
Harper & Brothers, 66, 68, 72, 95, 111–12, 122, 142, 145, 149, 157–58, 161, 164–66, 168, 170, 173, 175, 180, 184, 187, 200, 203, 206, 212–13, 216–17, 220–22, 230, 242, 246, 252, 259, 266, 288n
Harper & Row. See Harper & Brothers
HarperCollins. See Harper & Brothers
Harper’s, 148, 198, 201
“HARRIET HERE IS PRACTICALLY AN AUTHORITY ON COMMUNISTS. SHE WRITES PIECES ABOUT THEM IN THE NEW YORKER” (cartoon), 35–36
Harris, Vince Crockett, 247
Harry and the Lady Next Door, 184
Hart, Moss, 87, 93
Hauff, Wilhelm, 202
Hausman, Gerard, 247, 249, 251
Hausman, Lorry, 247
Haviland, Virginia, 137, 151
Hayden, Joseph, 214
Hazard, Eleanor, 262–63
Heart’s Needle, 170
Hearst, William Randolph, 37, 74
Heinrich, Peggy, 249, 259, 264
Heins, Ethel, 212
Heller, Joseph, 219
Hellman, Lillian, 87, 91
Helsinki, 246
Hemingway, Ernest, 61
Henkes, Kevin, 6
Hennefrund, Bet, 170, 289n
Henry Holt (publisher), 4, 96
Henry Schuman (publisher), 111
Henry, William A., 3rd, 248
Hepburn, Katharine, 80
Heptagon from Its Seven Sides, 253, 257
Herald Tribune Children’s Spring Book Festival, 111
Here and Now Storybook, 5
Herriman, George, 7, 274, 284n
Hersey, John, 87
Hicks, Granville, 49
Higgins, Dick, 237, 241
Hilberman, Dave, 193
Hilton, Conrad, 158
Hilton, Ned, 47
Hirsch, Blanche, 25
Hirschman, Susan Carr, 115, 154–56, 173, 180, 185, 199–200, 204, 213, 217, 264, 266, 288n
Hitler, Adolf, 42–43, 49, 53, 58, 66, 197
Hoban, Russell, 173, 270, 272
Hoff, Syd, 4, 45, 49, 58, 77, 184
Hoffman, Phyllis, 266
Hogarth, Bill, 231
Hole Is to Dig, A, 3–4, 25, 122–28, 130–31, 137–38, 143–44, 148, 155, 165–66, 170–71, 176, 179–80, 183, 189–90, 193–94, 205, 209, 213, 224, 272
“Hole Is What You Need This Book Like in Your Head, A,” 166
Holiday, Billie, 80
Holland, 238
Hollander, John, 237
Hollywood, 80, 92, 105, 191
Hollywood Ten, 120
Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 218, 222
Homer, 249
Hoover, Ellison, 63
Hoover, J. Edgar, 108, 119, 147–48
Horn Book, 110, 127, 130, 137, 151, 154–56, 212, 272
Horton Hears a Who!, 4
Hoss, Phoebe Wilson, 165, 193
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 3–4, 113, 120, 125, 131
Howard, Richard, 222
Howard, Ronny, 191
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, 4
How to Make an Earthquake, 139, 141, 148, 153
HUAC. See House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Hughes, Langston, 4, 44, 87–88
Human Condition 1, 186
Hungary, 9
Hurd, Thacher, 275
Huston, Walter, 43
“I AM A REAL RED!” (cartoon), 46
I Can Fly, 110–11, 198, 272
I Can Read (series), 184, 186
I, Claudius, 236
I. F. Stone’s Weekly, 143
I Like You, 165
I Want to Paint My Bathroom Blue, 138–39, 143, 162, 242
I Write It, 99, 233, 242
Ibiza, 251
IBM Research Division, 259
Ice Haven, 275
“If Only,” 191, 219, 259
If Only, 239
If Only…: A Ruth Krauss Gala!, 239–40
I’ll Be You and You Be Me, 138, 142, 153, 157, 162, 179, 269–70
“Imitation,” 205
“In Flanders Fields,” 23
In Henry’s Backyard: The Races of Mankind, 111
In the Night Kitchen, 178
Independent Committee of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions (ICAASP), 87, 91, 95, 113
Independent Voters Committee of the Arts and Sciences for Roosevelt (IVCASR), 76, 87
Indiana, 104
Ingersoll, Ralph, 61
Ingman, Bruce, 275
International News Service, 37
Intransit: The Andy Warhol Gerard Malanga Monster Issue, 237
Ireland, 239, 246
Is This You?, 138–41, 212
Italy, 43, 71, 238
J. Philip O’Hara (publisher), 228
Jackson, Kay Gauss, 198
Jaediker, Kermit, 61
James, Henry, 99
James, William, 99
Japan, 58
Jarrell, Randall, 170
Jewish School for the Blind, 133
Johnny Get Your Money’s Worth, 65
Johnson, Crockett. See Leisk, David Johnson
Johnson, Hugh, 37
Jones, Chuck, 5
Jones, Gordon, 206
Jonze, Spike, 5
&nb
sp; Jordan, Alice M., 110
Josephson, Barney, 80, 92, 95–96
Joyce, James, 166, 248
Joyce, William, 275
Judson Church, 226
Judson Poets’ Theater, 223, 241
Juggler of Our Lady, The, 195
Jumanji, 5
Jung, Carl, 164
“Just because your greedy workmen decide to go on strike I can’t have a new Mercedes. Somehow it doesn’t seem fair” (cartoon), 37
Juster, Norton, 195
Kanin, Michael, 80
Karl, Jean, 209
Kay, Helen, 4
Kazan, Elia, 93
Keane, Bil, 7
Keats, Ezra Jack, 231
Keller, Laurie, 6
Kellogg, Steven, 274
Kelly, Walt, 7, 87, 106, 274
Kennedy, Caroline, 198
Kennedy, Jacqueline, 198
Kennedy, John F., 197, 212
Kennedy, Joseph, Sr., 197
Kennedy, Robert F., 242
Kent, Rockwell, 44–45, 56, 70, 79, 88, 91, 104, 106, 132, 219
Kerensky, Alexander, 49
Kerrigan, J. M., 93
Khrushchev, Nikita, 194
Kieran, Margaret Ford, 137
Kimberly-Clark Corporation, 134–35
King Features, 61
King Jesus, 236
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 242
Kinkead, Katharine T., 154
Kirkus, 80, 94, 97, 127, 180, 194, 203, 222–23, 235, 263–64
Klein, Binnie, 260–61, 264
Knoop, Johanna. See Burg, Johanna
Koch, Kenneth, 7, 183–84, 190–91, 196, 199, 204, 208–9, 221, 248, 251
Korean War, 182
Kramer, Esta, 261
Kramer, Hilton, 261
Kramer, Sidney, 266
Krauss, Blanche (RK’s mother), 3, 9, 31, 39, 42, 120, 130
Krauss, Carrie (RK’s aunt), 9, 39
Krauss, Elsie (RK’s grandmother), 9
Krauss, Janet, 249, 259, 270
Krauss, Julius Leopold (RK’s father), 9, 27
Krauss, Leopold (RK’s grandfather), 9, 11–13
Krauss, Ruth Ida:
aesthetics of, 28, 33, 148, 153, 155, 248
anthropology and, 51–54, 58, 63–64, 66, 69, 71, 93–94, 264, 282n
anti-racism of, 11, 52, 64, 66–67, 93–94, 102, 104, 120–21, 162, 182, 242
artistic ability of, 29–31, 124, 215, 229–30
athletics of, 12, 14, 25, 68, 154
birth of, 9
celebrity of, 123, 187–88
childhood of, 9–15, 25–27, 121, 266, 270
childlessness of, 97–98
childlike aspects retained by, 14
death of, 102, 271
dogs owned by, 53, 191–92
education of, 12–15, 26–31
family background of, 9–10
fan mail received by, 155
finances of, 28, 31, 68, 72, 111, 116, 138–39, 166, 201, 238–39
health of, 11, 13, 51, 143, 214–15, 221, 234, 239, 242–43, 247, 252, 260–61, 270–71
jobs held by, 28, 31, 39
library named for, 226
marriages of, 39–40, 58, 68, 263–64
meets CJ, 54
mentoring by, 7, 124, 179–80, 189, 202, 210, 251, 259, 261, 265–66
music of, 14, 26–27
narcolepsy of, 58, 100, 251
nicknames of, 25–26, 189, 200, 251
phobias and anxieties of, 12, 99, 101, 159–60, 221, 259, 263–64, 268
physical appearance, 4, 54, 158, 204, 249
political beliefs of, 11, 52, 64, 69, 79, 88, 93–94, 102, 104, 111, 120–21, 199, 219, 228–29, 241, 249, 264–65
pseudonyms used by, 39, 189, 200
psychoanalysis and, 159–60, 263–64
rapport with children, 5–6, 84, 97–98, 133, 140, 142, 148, 163, 220, 269
religious background of, 4, 10, 13, 42
residences of, 3, 9–10, 12–14, 28, 31, 38–40, 57, 59
sex and, 31, 158, 247–48, 251, 264, 267
sexism faced by, 15, 39, 58, 72, 104, 127, 181
surrogate parenting by, 124, 140, 223, 269
travels of, 40–42, 51–52, 95, 187, 202, 219–21, 234–35, 239, 241–42, 246, 251–52, 254, 258, 267
will of, 272–73
works of:
advertising, 111, 165, 193
alternate titles for, 80, 114, 122, 126, 144, 166, 180, 182, 189, 203, 230, 274
anti-racist message in, 66–67, 162, 242
audience for, 66, 96, 142, 155, 162, 170, 181–83, 188, 194, 212, 221–22, 224–25, 235, 237, 241, 264–65
awards and honors, 80, 111, 226
childhood influences on, 25, 121, 229
children’s language in, 5–6, 26, 109, 117, 122, 126, 130–31, 142, 144, 148, 153–54, 188, 194
creative process, 5–6, 13, 72, 82–85, 98–100, 103, 116–17, 122, 124, 126, 140, 143–44, 160, 169–71, 188, 229–30, 248–49, 263, 272–73
editor for, 115, 140
fiction for adults, 39, 96
illustration for her own work, 215, 239–40, 248–50
imagination in, 82, 89, 126, 131, 215, 228, 247–48, 275
influence of, 6, 165–66, 193
innovation in, 115–17, 122–23, 126–28, 137, 140, 142–43, 153–54, 190, 247–48
moral themes in, 66–67, 69–70, 93–94, 111–12, 121, 126, 130, 137, 162, 199, 242, 265
plays, 210, 212, 215, 221, 223–24, 226, 230, 233, 237, 239–40, 248, 265
poetry, 38–40, 110, 154, 170, 183, 189–91, 195, 197, 199–201, 203–5, 210, 212, 215, 217, 221–23, 230, 233, 237, 239, 241, 247–48, 251–52, 265–66
promotional efforts for, 72, 212–13
revisions of, 82–85, 95–96
sales of, 80, 127, 130, 138, 166, 170, 260, 274
stage performances of, 210, 212, 215, 221, 223, 226, 230, 239–40, 248, 265
translations and foreign editions, 120, 176, 238–39
unpublished, 69, 71, 90, 93–96, 99, 116, 162–63, 169–70, 239, 251–52, 264–65, 266, 270 See also specific titles
Kray, Betty, 182
Krazy Kat, 7, 226, 274, 284n
Kreymborg, Alfred, 130
Kubrick, Stanley, 216, 234, 280n
“Kuku Karl and Hesa Nutt Visit the Museum” (cartoon), 19
Kulchur, 221
Kunitz, Stanley, 182, 219
Kuper, Peter, 275
Kuskin, Karla, 252
La Guardia, Fiorello, 62
La Mama, 241
Ladies’ Home Journal, 200
Lahr, Bert, 191–92
Landau, Sidney, 163–64, 234
Language Arts, 264
Lans, Barbara, 249, 270
Larkin, Philip, 170
LaTouche, John, 80
Laurence, Paula, 71
Lausanne, 220
Lawson, John Howard, 79, 106, 113, 120
Lear, Edward, 98, 124
Lear, Norman, 228
Leask, David (CJ’s grandfather), 16
Leask, Jane (CJ’s grandmother), 16
Lehman, David, 190
Leighton, Al, 100
Leisk, Bert (CJ’s cousin), 21, 32
Leisk, David (CJ’s father), 16–17, 19, 157, 234
Leisk, David Johnson (aka Crockett Johnson):
aesthetics of, 7, 17, 24, 33, 44, 49, 68, 72–73, 149, 177–78, 185–87, 222, 238, 245–46
anti-racism of, 47, 54, 79, 88, 104, 119
artistic ability of, 19, 185, 238
athletics of, 4, 24, 33, 46, 158
birth of, 16
carpentry of, 102, 143
celebrity of, 72, 96, 123, 187–88, 226
childhood of, 16–24, 189
childlessness of, 98
death of, 257, 263
dogs owned by, 17, 35, 53, 102–3, 156, 191–92
education of, 17, 23–24, 252
family background of, 16–21
fan mail r
eceived by, 71, 129, 259
finances of, 32, 34, 44, 72, 81, 92, 147, 157, 204, 238–39
health of, 59, 210, 234, 242–43, 247, 252, 254, 255, 257
humor of, 19, 103, 135, 141, 158, 177, 220, 232–33, 238, 255
jobs held by, 32–34, 44, 135
manner of speaking, 19
marriages of, 35, 50, 58, 68
mathematics and, 23, 73–75, 235, 238–39, 241, 246–47, 251–52, 254, 257
meets RK, 54
mentoring by, 7, 124, 158, 180, 202, 210
nocturnal habits of, 67–68, 73, 101–2, 155
origins of name, 16, 19, 234, 278n
physical appearance, 4, 33, 54, 57, 149, 158, 179, 234, 249
political beliefs of, 18, 34–37, 43–44, 46–50, 54–56, 58–59, 63, 66, 76–77, 79, 86–88, 95, 103, 106, 108–9, 113, 117, 119, 161, 194, 197, 219, 229–30, 241
pseudonyms used by, 19, 21, 23, 37
religious background of, 4, 19
residences of, 3, 16–18, 20, 32–33, 35, 38, 57, 59
sailing and, 17, 68, 80, 155, 176, 179, 216
smoking and, 24, 67, 71, 143, 231, 254
surrogate parenting by, 124, 143–44, 223
travels of, 49, 95, 187, 202, 219–21, 234–35, 239, 241–42, 246, 251–52, 254
typography and, 24, 32–33, 73, 88, 176
will of, 210, 261–62
works of:
advertising, 32–33, 56, 71, 134–35, 178, 193, 197, 256
alternate titles for, 180–81, 199
animation, 79, 193
audience for, 62–65, 71, 74, 77–78, 180, 185–86, 189, 213
awards and honors, 178, 251
cartoons, 164, 193, 197, 245–46, 251–52
childhood influences on, 19, 149, 157, 189, 218
comics, 18–22, 35–37, 43, 46–49, 53–65, 67–68, 70–74, 77, 79–82, 86–87, 90–92, 103, 106, 108–9, 113–14, 128–29, 135–37, 282n, 286n
creative process, 19, 60, 67–68, 82, 98, 103, 140–41, 169, 173, 189, 237, 249
editor for, 33–34, 44–45, 49–50
editor for RK’s work, 78, 88, 124, 140
illustrations for others’ work, 47, 66, 72, 78, 88, 138–42, 158, 228
imagination in, 5, 21, 23–24, 46, 67, 114, 148–52, 169, 171, 184, 186, 275
influence of, 5, 7, 151–52, 275
innovation in, 73, 140, 142–43, 145, 160–62
inventions, 124, 129, 148–49, 155, 158, 180
mathematical formulae, 235, 238–39, 241, 246–47, 251–52, 254, 257, 260
moral themes in, 35–37, 43, 53–56, 58–59, 66, 75–76, 79, 161, 175–76, 213, 217–18
paintings, 224–28, 230–33, 235–38, 241–42, 246, 249, 253, 257, 259–62, 272
promotional efforts for, 71, 212–13
radio performances of, 81–82, 105
revisions of, 145, 154–55, 204–5
sales of, 5, 6, 130, 149, 164–65, 170, 180–81, 200
stage performances of, 79–81, 91–93, 95–96, 104–5
television adaptations of, 148, 228