by Philip Nel
translations and foreign editions, 156, 176, 238–39
unpublished, 91, 140–41 See also specific titles
Leisk, Else George. See Frank, Else George
Leisk, Mary (CJ’s mother), 16–17, 19–21, 130, 145, 157
Lenin, Vladimir, 37, 49
Leningrad, 246
Lenox, 247, 251
Lepape, Georges, 30
Lerner, Ethel, 102
Lerwick (Scotland), 16, 19
Les Quatre Saisons, 100
Levack, Jane. See Leask, Jane
Levi, Howard, 231, 247, 254
Levin, Peter, 215
Levine, Abe, 133, 135, 143, 210
Levine, Emily, 133, 135, 142
Levine, Frume, 133, 135, 210
Lewis and Conger, 77–78
Lewis, C. S., 4
Lewis, Oscar, 51
Libby, Margaret, 164
“Liberal at the Crossroads” (cartoon), 55–56
Library Is to Know, A, 165
Library Journal, 115, 164, 216, 222–23, 235, 237
Lichtenstein, Roy, 220
Lieberman, Robbie, 113
Life, 71
Life of Johnson, 270
Li’l Abner, 7
Lima, Frank, 205
Lincoln, Abraham, 23. See also Abraham Lincoln Brigades
Lindbergh, Charles, 33
Lindeberg, Linda, 182
Lindgren, Astrid, 4
Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, The, 4
Lionni, Leo, 4
Lion’s Own Story, The, 3, 200, 205, 211, 244
Lippincott, 201
Lisbon, 220, 251
Little Bear, 184
Little Boat Lighter Than a Cork, 221, 252, 260
Little Chicken, 90
Little Fish That Got Away, The, 158
Little, Florence, 94
Little Golden Books, 96, 110–11, 116, 124–25, 170, 198
Little King, The, 56
Little King, the Little Queen, the Little Monster, and Other Stories You Can Make Up Yourself, The, 215–16, 230
Little Lit, 275
Little Man with the Eyes, The, 54, 56–57, 59, 63, 282n
Little Nemo in Slumberland, 5, 178, 274
Little Prince, The, 213
Little Rock, 161
Littledale, Freya, 249, 259, 261
Littleplume, Louie, 52
Living Theatre, 205
Locus Solus, 199, 215
Loebenstein, Ruth, 25
London, 40, 42, 220
Long Island Sound, 17, 133, 216, 247, 257, 273
Loose Enders, 181–82
Lorca, Federico García, 197–98, 201, 203, 209
Lorenzo Jones, 79
Los Angeles, 38, 238
Los Angeles Times, 211
Louisiana, 37
Love Labour’s Lost, 201
“Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” 205
Lowell, Robert, 113, 229
Luden, Cynthia, 249
Lund, Doris, 170, 255, 259
Lyrical Leftists, 130
Maas, Willard, 201, 204–5, 208, 217
MacDowell Colony, 258–59
Mack, Helen, 105
MacLeish, Archibald, 44
Macy’s, 32–33
Mad, 166, 193, 230
Madeline’s Rescue, 178
Mademoiselle, 201
Magazine of Art, 72
Magic Beach, 184–86, 193, 203, 216, 222, 258
Magic Circle Press, 260
Magil, A. B., 47
Magritte, René, 5, 186
Maher, Anna, 40
Mailman, Bruce, 248
Maine, 15, 25–26, 28, 202, 258
Majorca, 252
Malanga, Gerard, 183–84, 204–5, 217, 237, 239
Mallet, Elizabeth, 77
Mallory, Thomas, 185
Mama, I Wish I Was Snow—Child, You’d Be Very Cold, 203
Man Who Came to Dinner, The, 93
Marcantonio, Vito, 119
Marcus, Leonard S., 128, 206
Marinsky, Harry, 85–86, 135
Marion, Dave, 153
Marks, Sherman, 191
Marlow, Marilyn, 203, 209, 221
Marmaduke, 149
Marshall Fields, 32
Marshall, James, 98
Martin, Charles, 45, 58, 61
Martin, Leo, 165
Marvell, Andrew, 190
Marvin, Dwight, 129
Maryland Institute College of Art. See Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts
Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts, 9, 14, 28
Marx, Harpo, 237
Marx, Karl, 37, 49
Marxism, 246
Maslow, Abraham, 51
Massachusetts, 198, 242, 247, 251
Masters, Lillian, 104
Masters, Robert, 104
Mathematical Gazette, 238, 254
Matisse, Henri, 14
Maugham, W. Somerset, 79
Mauldin, Bill, 87
May, Andrew, 64
“May 22 Calcutta,” 217
Mayer, Carrie (RK’s grandmother), 10, 277n
Mayer, Samuel (RK’s great uncle), 10, 277n
Mayles Textiles, 163
McBride (publisher), 35
McCardell, Claire, 30
McCarthy, Joseph, 119–20, 131–32, 145, 197
McCarthy, Mary, 113
McCarthyism, 3, 130, 161, 182
McCay, Winsor, 5, 17 8, 274
McCloskey, Robert, 178
McCloud, Scott, 49
McCrae, John, 23
McDonnell, Patrick, 275
McGovern, Ann, 181
McGraw, James, 33
McGraw-Hill, 33–35
McKenney, Ruth, 56, 70
McKinney, Jim, 32
McKormick, Col. Robert, 74
McMahon, Alice, 60
McNally, Terrence, 248
McNell, Bob, 67, 100
McNell, Helen, 67, 100
Mead, Margaret, 7
Menken, Marie, 201, 208
Merck, 193
Merkin, Daphne 183
Merriam, Eve, 104
Merrill, James, 237
Merry Go Round, 160–61
Merton of the Movies, 100
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 58
Mexico, 95
Mexico City, 45
Mickenberg, Julia, 46, 130–31, 181–82
Mickey’s Magnet, 158, 175
Miles, Betty, 194
Miller, Henry, 155
Millet, Genevieve “Gene,” 234
Milne, A. A., 201, 248
Milton, John, 23
Minarik, Else Homelund, 184, 214
Minestrone: A Ruth Krauss Selection, 264
Minton, Bruce. See Bransten, Richard
Missouri, 10
Miss Thomas’s School, 133
Mitchell, Lucy Sprague, 5, 83, 110, 126
Modern Library, 31
Mondrian, Piet, 187
Monhegan Island, 187
Monkey Day, 162, 164
Montana, 51–52
Montauk, 234, 241, 245
Monte Carlo, 252
Montgomery Bus Boycott, 161
Montresor, Beni, 203
Moon or a Button, A, 4, 51, 148, 171–72, 179–82, 228
Moore, Anne Carroll, 115, 127
Moore, Lilian, 181, 229
Moore, Ward, 96
Mordvinoff, Nicolas, 122
Morgan, Frank, 81
Morgan, J. P., 36
Morikawa, George, 231
Morley, Jack, 90, 97, 106, 286n
Morrison, Lillian, 222
Moss, Stanley, 182
“Mother Machree,” 21
Motherwell, Robert, 220
Mouly, Françoise, 275
Mount Washington, 26, 187
Moustache Hat, 181
“Mr. Hearst says he’ll buy your farm articles if you’ll just change ‘Arkansas,’ ‘Louisiana,’‘California,’ and so on, to Soviet Russi
a” (cartoon), 37
Museum of Art, Science, and Industry, 238
Museum of Modern Art, 232, 238
Mussolini, Benito, 43, 58
“My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean,” 21
“My Dream with Its Solar-Pulse Gallop,” 205
“My Nightmare with Its Mother Just Off to the Left,” 261
My Sister Eileen, 56, 70, 91
“My Wife with the Woodfire Hair,” 261
Myron, 114
NAACP, 47
Nadada, 217
Naples, 220, 252
Nate’s and Leon’s Delicatessen, 120–21
Nation, The, 237
National Art Education Association, 228
National Citizens Political Action Committee, 95
National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax, 79
National Conference on Family Life, 104
National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, 119
National Defense Education Act, 182
National Library Week, 176
Navajo Door, The, 100
Nazarene Gospel Restored, The, 236
Nazareth, Ralph, 267
Nazi Party, 49, 53
Nelson’s Lobster House, 193
New Deal, 36, 49, 61, 77
New Hampshire, 187, 202, 258
New Haven Register, 187–89
New House in the Forest, The, 110
New Jersey, 38–39, 71
New Masses, 35–37, 43–50, 52–56, 66, 74, 79, 113, 119, 132, 225, 282n
New Orleans, 95
New School Poets, 205
New World Writing, 201, 203
New York City, 10, 16, 26, 28, 31–33, 40, 47, 52, 54, 58–59, 63, 67, 71, 79–80, 85, 88, 91–92, 95–96, 100–101, 108, 113, 126, 133, 193, 205, 210, 226, 230, 244, 251–52, 255, 259
New York Daily Mirror, 113
New York Daily News, 65
New York Herald Tribune, 97, 110, 115, 122, 142, 154, 164, 178
New York Journal-American, 74
New York Public Library, 115, 127–28, 216
New York Review of Books’ Children’s Books, 274
New York School, 183, 210, 222, 237
New York Star, 106, 113
New York Times, 77, 80, 94, 96–97, 122, 127, 130, 140, 142, 149, 151, 154–55, 162, 164, 170, 180, 190–91, 194, 203, 211–12, 219, 222, 228, 231, 252, 257, 259, 263, 271
New York Twelve, 108, 117
New York University, 33
New Yorker, 5, 80, 88, 140, 149, 154–55, 170, 176, 272, 274–75, 282n
Newbery Medal, 213
Newman, James R., 227–28
Newnham family, 41–42
“News,” 190
“News Item Chamberlain Warns Hitler” (cartoon), 49
Newsletters, 226
Newsweek, 71
Newton, Isaac, 241
“Newtown H.S.” (cartoon), 21, 218
Newtown High School, 19, 21, 23–24, 32, 45
Newtown High School Lantern, 18–23, 45
Niagara Falls Public Library, 177
Nico, 237
Night and Day, 90
Nilsson, Norma Jean, 81–82
Nixon, Richard M., 252
Nobel Prize, 77
Noguchi, Isamu, 31, 45
Noonan, Julia, 274
Nordstrom, Ursula, 7, 66, 69, 71–72, 77, 83–84, 86, 90, 95–96, 100, 111, 112, 114–17, 120, 122–23, 126–28, 135, 138–39, 144–45, 147, 153–58, 163, 165–66, 169–71, 173, 176–77, 180, 182–87, 189, 192, 194–95, 199–201, 203–6, 209, 212–14, 218, 220–21, 227–28, 242, 246, 252, 258, 266
Norlyst Gallery, 71
North, Joseph, 229
Norwalk Hospital, 214, 255, 257
Norway, 239
Noses Are for Roses, 165, 193
Nutshell Library, The, 192, 209, 260
Oakland Tribune, 180
Ochs, Phil, 237
Odets, Clifford, 91
O’Doherty, Barbara Novak, 222
“Off Day, An” (cartoon), 20–21
Off-Off Broadway., 215, 226
Of Off Broadway Book, The, 248
Office of War Information, 62, 81
O’Hara, Frank, 7, 183, 190, 199, 201–2, 205, 215, 217, 229, 237, 239, 255
O’Hara, Maureen, 255, 270
O’Hare, Kate Richards, 49
Olsen, Tillie, 219
Olson, Charles, 217
O’Malley, Mary E., 74
O’Malley, Mr. (character), 6–7, 32, 60–64, 70–71, 73–77, 79–81, 86–87, 92–93, 95, 97, 103, 106, 109, 114, 117, 120, 128–29, 148, 157, 191, 216, 228, 257, 275
“On Vietnam,” 228–29
O’Neill, Thomas P. “Tip,” 61
One Two Three … Infnity, 227
Ontario, 177
Open House for Butterflies, 9, 25, 144, 180, 182, 189–90, 194, 205, 228
Orgel, Doris, 202, 255
Orgel, Shelley, 202, 255
Orkney Islands, 234
Oslo, 239, 246
Oxenbury, Helen, 274
Padgett, Ron, 183
Pal, George, 79
Palestine, 103
Palmer, Lois, 127, 130, 142, 154, 162
Pantheon, 218, 221–22
Parade, 198
Parents, 234
Paris, 31, 33, 81, 112, 220, 235
Parker, Dorothy, 6, 61, 64, 70–71, 79
Parry, Maggie, 51–52
Parsons, Art, 165
Parsons, Frank, 28
Parsons School, 28–31, 54
Pasternack, Barbara, 267
Patoruzu, 61
Peabody Conservatory, 14, 26–27
Peanuts, 7, 274
Pembroke College, 129
Pencil, The, 275
Pendulum Motion (Galileo), 227
Pennsylvania, 39, 129
Perelman, S. J., 80
Peterborough, 258
Phantom Tollbooth, The, 195
Philadelphia, 39
Philadelphia Inquirer, 129
Philadelphia Record, 91–92
Philadelphia Story, The, 46
Physicians Forum, 87–88
Picasso, Pablo, 14, 166, 248
Picture for Harold’s Room,A (book), 151, 171, 186–87, 228, 246
Picture for Harold’s Room,A (cartoon), 245–46, 251
Piel, David, 164–65, 197
Pins and Needles, 79, 93
Pinter, Harold, 215
Pippi Longstocking, 4
Play I Play II Play III, 223
Playboy, 248
PM, 61–62, 65, 71–73, 90, 106, 125, 283n
Pocket Follies, 210
Pocket Theatre, 210
“Poem,” 217, 239
“Poem for the Depression,” 38–40
“Poet in the News,” 190–91
Pogo, 7, 106, 165, 274
Poland, 42, 52
Poland, Albert, 248
Polar Express, The, 152
poll tax, 79
Pollock, Jackson, 5
Popular Front, 43, 46–47, 61, 79–80, 87, 91, 104, 113
Potter, Beatrix, 98
Powers, Ann, 145
Powers, Francis Gary, 194
Poznanski, Gitel, 51–52, 100
Practical Mother’s Guide, 226
Price, Garrett, 58
Priestly, J. B., 40
“Primary Candidate Who Tried to Make a Mountain Out of a Mole-Hill, The” (cartoon), 47–49
Proctor, James D., 92, 95
Progressive Citizens of America (PCA), 95
Progressive Party, 108–9
Promenade Theatre, 268
Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem (Euclid), 224–25
Publishers Weekly, 228, 252, 260, 263–64
Puddn’head Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins, 103
Pulitzer Prize, 170, 274
Punch, 193
Punch Films, 193
Puppetoons, 79
Putnam’s, 223
Pythagoras, 225
Quadling, Douglas A., 2
54
Quebec, 196
Queens, 4, 16–24, 32
Quinterno, Dante, 61
Rabe, David, 248
Races of Mankind, The, 64, 93, 111
racism, 11
“Radiogram, Mr. Morgan. The White House wants to know are you better off than you were last year?” (cartoon), 36
Random House, 184
Rank, J. Arthur, 165
Raskin, Ellen, 203
Razor’s Edge, The, 84
Rea, Gardner, 45, 47, 58
Reader’s Digest, 252
Reagan, Ronald, 191
Redder Than the Rose, 47
Redisol, 193
Reed, Lou, 237
Re-Examination of Freedom, 239
Reich, Eleanor, 122
Reinhardt, Ad, 7, 45, 58, 64, 69, 72, 195, 208, 219, 225, 229, 231, 235
Reinhardt, Anna, 235
Reinhardt, Rita, 235
Relativity in Time and Space (Einstein), 227
Renner, Paul, 73
Renoir, Auguste, 14
Republican Party, 59, 74, 76–77, 108–9, 216
Residu, 234
Rey, H. A., 66
Rey, Marg ret, 66
Reykjavik, 246
Rhodes (Greek island), 220
Richter, Dan, 60, 84, 234–35, 270
Richter, Helen, 60, 133
Richter, Jill, 234
Richter, Mischa, 7, 43, 45, 56, 60, 88, 95, 103–4, 133, 234, 282n
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 170
Rimbaud, Arthur, 196
Ring, Elizabeth. See Hennefrund, Bet
Ripley’s Believe It or Not, 59
RKO, 92
Robbins, Jerome, 91
Robeson, Paul, 79, 88, 91
Robinson, Boardman, 79
Robinson, Earl, 79
Rodin, Auguste, 114
Rome, Harold J., 79
Rooney, Andy, 236, 257
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 61
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 36, 47, 56, 61, 76–77, 87, 92, 103
Roosevelt, Theodore, 21, 61
Rose, Carl, 58, 61, 176
Rose, Gil, 216, 257
Rose, Norman, 121, 164
Rosenfeld, Blanche. See Krauss, Blanche
Rosenfeld, Carrie (RK’s grandmother), 28
Rosenfeld, Henry (RK’s grandfather), 10
Rosswaag, Adolph (CJ’s father-in-law), 35
Rosswaag, Charlotte (CJ’s first wife), 35, 38, 50
Rosswaag, Veronica (CJ’s mother-in-law), 35
Roth, Philip, 182, 219–20
Rothko, Mark, 182, 220
Rotterdam, 239, 246
Rouquier, Georges, 100
Row, Peterson, and Company, 206
Rowand, Phyllis, 85, 97, 100, 104–5, 109–10, 116, 135, 143, 162–64, 176, 210, 214, 266
Rowayton, 3, 80, 85, 96, 99, 101, 122–23, 132–33, 176, 178, 208, 210, 212, 220, 236, 242, 244, 246–47, 269
Rowayton Arts Center, 193–94
Rowayton Kindergarten, 122, 148, 163
Rowayton Library, 176
Rukeyser, Muriel, 219
Rumin, Sidney, 105
Runaway Bunny, The, 90
Running Jumping ABC, 239, 252, 266
Runyon, Damon, 216
Russell, Mary, 164
Ruth Krauss Library, 226
Salinger, J. D., 215
