Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children's Literature

Contents

Contents Introduction 3 1. Ruth Krauss’s Charmed Childhood 9 2. Becoming Crockett Johnson 16 3. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman 25 4. Punching the Clock and Turning Left 32 5. First Draft 38 6. Crockett and the Red Crayon 43 7. “We Met, and That Was It!” 51 8. Barnaby 61 9. A Good Man and His Good Wife 68 10. The Athens of South Norwalk 81 11. Art and Politics 91 12. At Home with Ruth and Dave 99 13. The Big World and the Little House 108 14. Artists Are to Watch 119 15. The Art of Collaboration 132 16. Harold 145 17. Striking Out into New Areas of Experimentation 153 18. New Adventures on Page and Screen 163 19. “Hitting on All 24 Cylinders” 171 20. Poet in the News, Cartoonist on TV 183 21. Lorca Variations and Harold’s ABC 196 22. Provocateur and Philosopher 208 23. Painting, Passports, and Protest 219 24. Theorems in Color, Poems on Stage 231 25. “You’re Only as Old as Other People Think You Are” 244 26. What Would Harold Do? 255 27. Life after Dave 258 28. Children Are to Love 269 Epilogue 274 Notes 276 Bibliography 303 Acknowledgments 341 Index 346 This page intentionally left blank Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss This page intentionally left blank ...