by Philip Nel
San Diego State College, 247
San Francisco, 37, 80, 106
San Francisco Chronicle, 94, 115, 130
Sandburg, Carl, 79, 139
Santorini (Greek island), 220
Saratoga Springs, 259
Sattler, Warren, 196
Saturday Review, 194, 242
Savo, Jimmy, 62, 80
Savo, Mario, 217
Sayers, Frances Clarke, 127
Scarborough, 246
Scarry, Richard, 4
Schindel, Morton, 266, 270
Schnabel, Marion, 85, 255
Schnabel, Stefan, 85, 132, 255
Schneider, Daniel E., 160
Schneider, Elizabeth Susan, 204, 206
Schneider, Herman, 100, 181–82, 204, 219, 255
Schneider, Lucy, 116
Schneider, Nina, 100, 116, 181–82, 204, 219, 255
Scholastic, 165, 181, 215, 228, 252, 266
School Library Journal, 228, 260, 264
Schulz, Charles, 7, 274
Schurr, Cathleen. See Skelly, Cathleen “Cay”
Schuyler, James, 239
Schwed, Fred, Jr., 86–87, 97, 135, 176, 229, 285n
Schwed, Harriet, 86, 135
Scientific American, 238
Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace, 113–14
Scotland, 16, 234, 239
Scott, Hazel, 87
Scott, Jerry, 275
Scott, William R., 126. See also William R. Scott (publisher)
“Scottsboro Boys,” 47, 79
Scribner’s, 201
Sealy (mattress company), 158
Searchinger, Gene, 135, 187, 238, 255, 257
Searle, Ronald, 193
“Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The,” 94
Seldes, George, 44
Selsam, Howard, 145
Selsam, Millicent, 145
Sendak, Maurice, 3, 4, 6, 86, 98, 122–27, 130–31, 135, 137–39, 142, 153–54, 158–59, 162–63, 166, 176, 178–79, 181, 184, 189, 192, 194, 202, 204, 209–10, 213–14, 233–34, 260, 263, 266, 270–72, 274
Seuss, Dr., 4, 61, 94, 98, 178, 184, 283n
Shakespeare, William, 23, 166, 199–201, 248
Shapiro, David, 183, 205
Sharnick, John, 176
Shaw, Dale, 258–59, 264, 267
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 150
Shepard, Jane, 267–68
Shepard, Sam, 248
Sherman, Harriet S., 122
Shetland Islands, 16–17, 234
Shostakovich, Dmitri, 113
Shy Little Kitten, The, 170
Sicily, 251–52
Sign on Rosie’s Door, The, 192
Silence, 247
“Silence,” 247
Silverstein, David, 247
Silverstein, Shel, 264, 270
Similar Triangles (Thales), 227
Simon & Schuster, 96, 125, 163
Simon, Norma, 126, 133, 215
Simont, Marc, 112, 115, 121–22, 195, 197
Simpsons, The, 5
“Sister, You Need the Union! … And the Union Needs You!,” 77
Skelly, Cathleen “Cay,” 170
Skelly, Joseph, 73
Skelton, Red, 100
Skrifola (Danish publisher), 156
Sloane, William, 96
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 255
Slobodkin, Louis, 79, 104
Small Black Lambs Wandering in the Red Poppies, 265
Smith Act, 108, 113
Smith, Gladys, 254
Smith, Lane, 6
Smith, Michael, 223
Smith, Michael Steven, 108
Smith, Stanley, 254
Smithsonian Institution, 257, 261, 272
Snodgrass, W. D., 170
Soby, James Thrall, 181
socialism, 119, 197, 246
socialists, 43, 119
Society of Illustrators, 165
Soglow, Otto, 56
“Solidarity Forever,” 133
Solomon, Deborah, 5
Somebody Else’s Nut Tree, 68, 163, 228
Somebody Spilled the Sky, 262–63
Something Else Press, 237, 241
“Song,” 217
“Song of the Melancholy Dress,” 230, 272
Song of the South, The, 110
Sontag, Susan, 220
Sophocles, 166
Soviet Union. See USSR
Spain, 45, 119
Spanish Civil War, 119–20
Sparber, Howard, 72–73
Spencer Memorial Church, 221
Spiegelman, Art, 7, 274
Splash, 26
Spotty, 67
Squared Circle, 236, 238
St. Louis, 10
Stagakis, Nina. See Wallace, Nina Rowand
Stalin, Joseph, 106, 113
Stanton, Jessie, 110
Steed, Robert, 51, 100
Steig, William, 79, 178
Stein, Gertrude, 221, 223
Steinberg, Saul, 5, 58, 81, 149
Stevens, Wallace, 221
Stevenson, Adlai, 152, 161
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 23
Stewart, Donald Ogden, 46, 106
Stockbridge, 242, 247
Stockholm, 246
Stoddard, Sandol, 165
Stone, I. F., 113. See also I.F. Stone’s Weekly
“Strange Fruit,” 80
Stravinsky, Igor, 215
strikes, 18–19, 36–37
Strong, Edward, 217
Stroud, J. B., 73, 227, 235, 252
surrealism, 195, 201, 209, 211, 223, 237
Sweden, 238
Swenson, May, 237
Switzerland, 239
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, 178
Syracuse, 251
Szilagyi, Mary, 266–67
Szyk, Arthur, 58
“Tabu,” 239
Tangier, 251
TASS, 36
Taxi That Hurried, The, 110
Taylor, Alex, 36
Taylor, Brett, 223
Taylor, Judy, 234
Taylor, Recy, 79
“Teachers Appeal for Peace in Vietnam,” 228
Tempo Productions, 193
Tennis Court Oath, The, 239
Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 23
Terre Haute Children’s Theatre, 104
Terre Haute Tribune, 104
Terrible Terrifying Toby, 156–57, 166, 170, 192
Terry and the Pirates, 64
Thales, 227
“Thank You,” 208
“That dirty Russian deserted us!” (cartoon), 53
Theatre Experiment, 221
Theatreworks USA, 267
There’s a Little Ambiguity Over There Among the Bluebells, 183, 219, 237, 241, 295n
There’s a Little Ambiguity Over There Among the Bluebells (play), 248
“There’s a Little Ambiguity Over There Among the Bluebells,” 234
Thinker, 114
38 Haikus, 215
“This Breast,” 208, 247, 249, 295n
This Breast Gothic, 247–50, 265, 295n
This Rich World: The Story of Money, 65–66
This Thumbprint, 229–30, 233
Thomas Y. Crowell (publisher), 175
Thompson, Kay, 4
Three Caballeros, The, 110
Thurber, James, 94
Thurmond, Strom, 109
Tide, 165
Time, 61, 71, 92
Time for Spring, 156–57, 160
Time of Wonder, 178
“To His Coy Mistress,” 190
Tobey, Barney, 58
Tobias, Ann Jorgensen, 200, 203–4, 293n
Tojo, Hideki, 58
Tolkin, Michael, 5
Tolstoy, Leo, 179
Tom Sawyer, 145
Tracy, Spencer, 80
Transcendental Curve (Wallis), 228
Tropic of Cancer, The, 155
Trotsky, Leon, 49
Troy Record, 129
Trubowitz, Jackie, 231
Trubowitz, Shelle
y, 120, 135, 197, 231, 255, 259
Truman, Harry, 107–9
Trumbo, Dalton, 106
Truth About Father Coughlin, The, 47
Turkey, 194, 220
Turner, Charles Y., 14
Twain, Mark, 6, 103, 145
Two Is a Team, 66
Two Medicine River, 51
2001: A Space Odyssey, 234
Under Thirteen, 252
Under Twenty, 239
Ungerer, Tomi, 193
unions, 34–36, 77, 133
United Auto Workers-CIO, 77
United Kingdom. See England
United Nations, 80
United Productions of America (UPA), 93, 111, 193
United States v. William Z. Foster et al., 119
University of California at Berkeley, 217
University of Southern Mississippi, 228
Untermeyer, Louis, 219
UPA. See United Productions of America (UPA)
“Uri Gagarin & William Shakespeare,” 199
Ussachevsky, Vladimir, 182
USSR, 37, 45, 49, 53, 91–92, 106–7, 109, 113, 119, 133, 194, 199, 246
U-2 plane, 194
Vallorbe, 220
Van Allsburg, Chris, 5, 152, 275
Van Riper, Kay, 96
“Variations on a Lorca Form,” 197–98, 201
Variety, 191
Vaughn, Eleanor K., 158
Velvet Underground, 237
Venice, 220, 251
Venice Film Festival, 251
Very Special House, A, 126–27, 132–33, 137–38, 153, 209
Vic Jordan, 61
Vietnam War, 182, 219, 228, 241
Village Creek, 132–33
Village Voice, 195, 215, 221, 223
Wagner College, 201, 204
Wagner Literary Magazine, 204–5, 208
Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill, 87
Wakoski, Diane, 217
Waldman, Anne, 221, 239
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, 113
Wallace, Gene, 85, 135, 143, 157, 266
Wallace, Henry, 61, 95, 103–4, 106–9, 113, 132
Wallace, Nina Rowand, 85, 98, 116, 140, 142–43, 157–58, 162–64, 210, 223, 266, 269
Wallis, John, 228
Walter, Sydney Schubert, 215
Ward, Lynd, 77, 104
Ware, Chris, 7
Warhol, Andy, 208, 217, 237
“Was it Marx, Lenin, or Gen. Johnson who said:‘ The general strike is quite another matter’?” (cartoon), 37
Watterson, Bill, 171, 274
Waugh, Coulton, 7, 96–97
We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy, 272
We Wonder What Will Walter Be? When He Grows Up, 218
“Weather,” 190
Weegee. See Fellig, Arthur
Weiss, Harvey, 231, 265
Welles, Orson, 44, 87
Weltfish, Gene, 63–64, 111, 113
West Village, 38, 58
Western Female High School, 14, 26
Weston Woods, 246, 251
Weston-Westport Arts Council, 239
Westport, 8, 95, 140, 202, 239, 241, 247, 249, 251, 255, 258, 263, 267
Westport Arts Center, 259
Westport News, 260
Westport Poetry Workshop, 258–59, 265
What a Fine Day For …, 233, 235
What Can You Do with a Shoe?, 181
Where Are the Customers’ Yachts?; or, A Good Hard Look at Wall Street, 86
Where the Wild Things Are, 5, 178, 209–10, 213–14, 274
Whistler, James Abbott, 114
White, Betty (Lionel’s sister), 38
White, E. B., 4
White, Harold (Lionel’s brother), 38
White, Julie (Lionel’s first wife), 38
White, Lionel (RK’s first husband), 31, 38–40, 51, 263–64, 280n
Whitman, Walt, 209
Whittlesey House, 193
Who’s Afraid of Virgina Woolf?, 201
Who’s Upside Down?, 119, 129–30, 135, 157
Why Johnny Can’t Read, 184
Whyte, William H., Jr., 158
Wild Dog, 217
Willcox, Roger, 132
William Morrow (publisher), 264
William R. Scott (publisher), 129, 140, 157, 181
William Sloane Associates, 96
Williams, Gurney, 54
Williamson, Judson H., 59
Willie’s Adventures, 139
Will Spring Be Early? Or Will Spring Be Late?, 175–76
Wilmington, 93, 95, 226
Wilson, Lanford, 215, 248
Win the Peace Conference, 92
Winn, Marcia, 115–16
Winnie-the-Pooh, 201
Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel, 153
Wizard of Oz, 81
Wolfe, Tom, 160
Wolff, Miles H., 74
Woman of the Year, 80
Woman’s Day, 85
“Wonderfullums Inc.” (cartoon), 54
Woods, George, 164, 194, 203
Woodward, Helen, 32
Wordsworth, William, 23
World Affairs Center, 241
World Anthology: Poems from the St. Mark’s Poetry Project, The, 239
World of Mathematics, The, 227–28
World War I, 14, 20–21, 23, 41
World War II, 52–53, 56, 58, 63, 66, 77, 87, 100
XbyX, 204
Yaddo, 259
Yorklyn Elementary School, 226
You Can’t Take It with You, 93
Young, Art, 44–45, 58
Young, Chic, 65
Young, Loretta, 135
Yucatán, 95
“Yuri Gagarin & William Shakespeare,” 199, 201
Zablodowsky, David, 35
Zeebrugge, 246
Zerner, Charles, 61
Zion, Gene, 184
Zits, 275
Zolotow, Charlotte, 66, 214
PHILIP NEL teaches courses in children’s and young adult literature and serves as the director of Kansas State University’s Program in Children’s Literature. His books include Keywords for Children’s Literature (coedited with Lissa Paul); Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children’s Literature (coedited with Julia Mickenberg); The Annotated Cat: Under the Hats of Seuss and His Cats; Dr. Seuss: American Icon; and J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Novels: A Reader’s Guide.
