The Carpenter's Druthers (A Nonsense Poetry Composition Competition)

Who Carroll’s Carpenter Might Have Been 
Create an Alphabet’s Worth of Six-line Stanzas, Each Introducing a Different Partner for the Walrus   

Sometime in 1871, presenting the text for “The Walrus and the Carpenter” to his illustrator John Tenniel for the artist to illustrate, Lewis Carroll gave the man alternate choices for the character of the Carpenter, namely the Butterfly and the Baronet, explaining that each fit the poem metrically (in what is here designated as a -- ^ -- pattern) and that Tenniel should make the selection based on the chosen image’s pictorial potential. 

The list below features 26 other options Carroll might have offered. The list includes neither inanimate objects (for example, ‘the Catapult’ is not included) nor phrases (e.g., it excludes ‘the Bishop’s Thumb’ even though that phrase exhibits the requisite -- ^ -- pattern). Otherwise, pretty much anything goes, and the list is far from comprehensive.

Here’s Carroll’s original (with a normalized punctuation: pace Rev'd Carroll):
 

The Walrus and the Carpenter

Were walking close at hand;

They wept like anything to see

Such quantities of sand:

“If this were only cleared away,”

They said, “it would be grand!”

And here are several options:

The Walrus and the Astronaut

The Walrus and the Basilisk

The Walrus and... 

the Corporal, the Doberman, 
the Extrovert, the Fisher King, 
the Gadabout, the Harlequin, 
the Idiot, the Janitor, the Kittiwake, 
the Liberal, the Masochist, the Neonate, 
the Ombudsman, the Pantywaist, 
the Quietist, the Radical, the Shepherdess, 
the Trotskyite, the Ubermensch, 
the Vagabond, the Wanderer, 
the Xylocarp, the Yodeler, the Zebrafish

Or select your own new partners, as long as they maintain the -- ^ -- pattern.

Then compose six new line stanzas using each additional option in turn, following the metrical model and rhyme scheme of Carroll's original.

Alphabet of Bugs (A Structrually Constrained Nonsense ABC)

A's for A Bug: 
Donald Rumsfeld, 
shocking, Awful 
ABU Ghraib Bug!

B's for B Bug: 
Ms. Savitsky, 
bitchin' Bella 
ABzUG Bug!

C's for C Bug: 
John Belushi: 
"…-burger, cheese-!" (Cheese-
BUrGer Bug!)

D...? D Bug: Mar-
lene Dietrich: 
Deutsch-treat BlaUe 
EnGel Bug!

E's for E Bug: 
King Kong: esca-
lator’d E. State 
BUildinG Bug.

F’s for F Bug: 
Swiss Jean Tinguely, 
fabled FreiBoUrG 
Fauvist Bug!

G’s for G Bug: 
young Abe Lincoln, 
gabby Gettys-
BUrG Address Bug!

H...? For H Bug: 
Little Toot: the 
hapless happy 
HarBor TUG Bug!

I's for I Bug: 
Adolf Hitler: 
rare "Is Paris 
BUrninG...?" Bug!

J's for J Bug: 
Oscar Hammer-
stein: "June's BUstinG 
Out All O-…" Bug!

K's for K bug:
Boris I,* the 
karmic Khan (BUl-
Garian) Bug!
     * Boris the First, of course – 
i.e., not Boris Ingelheim the 
New Jersey orthodontist.

L...? For L Bug: 
Wolverines: those 
"I Love Thee, Li'l 
Brown JUG" Bugs!

M...? M Bug: The 
Artist’s* "The Most 
BeaUt'ful Goil In 
Woild" Bug!
     * The one formerly known as 'Prince.'

N's for N Bug:
Ms. Monroe: the 
nubile Nude-on-
Bear-RUG Bug!

O's for O Bug:
K. L. Bates:* "Oh, 
BeautifUl For 
Spacious...Grain" Bug!
     * Composer of "America the Beautiful" 
Katherine Lee Bates.

P's for P Bug: 
A. Carnegie: 
philanthropic 
PittsBUrGh Steel Bug!

Q's for Q Bug: 
Marx, aka 
QuackenBUsh (call’d
Groucho) Bug!

R's for R Bug:
Michael Richards: 
racist RaBid 
JUnkyard DoG Bug!

S? S bug: for 
Messers Flatt and 
Scruggs: two Southern 
BlUeGrass Bugs!

T's for T Bug:
Joseph Gibbs: a 
Turncoat BUrgun-
dy 'n' Gold Bug!

U’s U Bug: U-
nited Ara-
Bic RepUb' of 
EGypt Bug!

V's for V Bug:
C. Bartholin*: 
“VestiBUle...Va-
Gina” Bug!
     * The Younger.

W’s Bug is
Patrick Henry: 
WilliamsBUrg Gun-
powder Bug!

X? For X Bug: 
Ryken*: Xaver-
ian Bro from
BrUGge Bug!
     * I.e., T. J. Ryken.

Y's for Y Bug:
Rodgers:* "You've Got
Caref'lly to Be 
TaUGht" Bug!
     * Richard, of course, 
not Roy – note spelling (orthography, 
of course, not Tori).

Z's for Z Bug: 
Pike: Z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-breeding 
ZeBUlon Mont-
Gom'ry Bug!

Aesop Abbrev'd (A Nonsense Rhyme)

A is for Aesop. ('Tis I.
You'd act brash? Spell it 'ash, sigma, omicron, pi.')

Read here: "Andra moi ennepe Mu-..."?*
Not one whit! Here's writ lit -- bits of wit fit for fou.**
     * The opening words of Homer's Odyssey.
     ** French for 'crazy.'

B is for "Belling the Cat."
Point? To say ain't to do. (Dudes like you should know that.)

C's for "The Cock and the Jew'l."
What's its gist? Who persists fetching frills finds a fool.

D's for "The Dog in the Manger."
Who accrues without using: purrs any cur stranger?

E is for Ennus, my scion.
Me he jail'd. Si, he fail'd. (Enn's no gens I'd rely on.")

F's for "The Fawn And His Mother."
No raison favors fight -- not when flight be one's druther.

G's for "The Gnat and the Bull."
'Tis so true: you're just you. Let not pride pull the wool.

H? For "The Hare And The Tortoise."
Rule to keep: Never sleep! (Just remember Abe Fortas.)

I's for "The Idol of Clay."
Not cajol'd, to it pray though you may,
it spills gold when you break it one day.
(It appears this god hears...in his roundabout way.)

J is for "Jove and the Monkey."
Please to note: one's son's haut, be he fair-faced or funky."

K's for "The King of the Frogs."
Lesson? Don't for storks sue; do make do with god's logs.

L's fpr "The Lion in Love."
Be that passion's irrational cognizant of.

M's for "The Miser's Lost Gold."
Knick'd: the lot! Nor is Cotta* cajol'd.
"Still," folks thought, "nowt got bought; nowt got sold:
what's amiss?" Merely this: not one dollar he doled!
     * Alexander Pope's personification of the miser.

N? For "The Neats Tongues Adventure."
When our gallant's droll talents prov'd awkward to censure.

O's for "The Old Man and Death."
Don't entreat Death's relief! Save your breath! Death's a thief.

P's for "The Peacock And Juno."
Point? You can't have it all. Folks will call you...(well, you know).

Q's for "The Quack Frog: A Fable."
First, Docteur: thyself cure! Or deserve your 'quack' label.

R? "The Irrational Raven."
Change of scene doesn't mean that you'll glean all you're cravin.'

S? For "The Stag at the Pool."
Don't write off that which oft proves a life-saving tool.

T's for "The Thieves and the Cock."
Your belief that a thief won't undo you's a crock.

U? "The Four Oxen United."
Graze alone, on your own? Quick demise you've invited.

V's for "The Vine and the Goat."
Break your fast: who'll laugh last when lays open your throat?

W? "The Wolf and the Kid."
Acting smart ain't no art when one's cautiously hid.

X is for Xanthus, my master.
Were slave not Aesop's lot, would've pastures proved vaster?

Y's for "A Youth and His Mother."
Raise your child to run wild; watch him wind up no other.

Z's for "The Zephyr/Sol War."
What beats force? Well, of course, exhortations do. Or...

Another Hesitation Waltz (A Nonsense Rhyme)

  

I run the clock. I bide my time. The Great Procrastinator I’m.

I hesitate (although not lost). I drag my feet at any cost.

I shilly-shally, I defer. I play the waiting game, for sure.

I stall. I drag. I temporize. I’m one of those “retarded” guys.

I’m quite the goldbrick, I’ll be bound. I give all work the runaround.

Each place I go’s a waiting room. “NosSlomo” is my nom de plume.

I loiter. I put off. I pause. I filibuster – all because, 

inevitably, I postpone. My goodness: how the time has flown!

Animal Metaphors (A Nonsense ABC)

The animals-as-metaphors 
my constant reader runs across

include (your butt you bet, of course) 
Sam Coleridge’s Albatross.
No African American, 
tagg'd Black Sheep of the Family,
whom Miss Anne moves to marry, 
dares succumb, lynch'd Alabamaly.
Concerning Cats Let Out of Bags, 
one needs but note: they spill the beans.
Remember: feline fealty lags -- 
plus, whistle blowing’s in their genes.
Of all my nonsense verses blogg'd 
since late July of 2010,
there’s one, about the Dead Horse Flogg'd, 
I repost ev’ry now and then.
Though try one might, one can’t ignore 
the Elephant Within the Room,
nor show beasts of this ilk the door. 
(It smells, that pachydermal fume.)
The Fish out of Water. The Fly on the Wall. 
The Canaries They Carry Down Mines.
One’s as awkward as hell. One’s a spy, truth to tell. 
And the bird chirps, despite her confines.
Let the challenge go forth: 
“Catch the Pig Who’s Been Greased!”
Bubba zigs south, then north. 
Cletus veers west, then east.
Goober zags east, then west. 
Gomer sheers north -- oops: south.
(Will that pig ‘e’er get serv'd 
with some fruit in its mouth...?)
The Horse a Diff’rent Color of...?
His coloring's a cut above. 
His hue's a whole new ball of wax. 
He ordinary tincture lacks. 
Consider Monkeys Infinitum 
(some intrigue folks; others bite ‘em):
team'd with reams of Olivettis, 
they’ll type, “…dinghies...? Near the jetties…”*
     * "You will find the dinghy by the jetty" 
is a line written for Bea Lillie to deliver -- 
as she does famously -- in the classic film 
"On Approval."
The Shark, once Jump'd...? No longer needed. 
Nor should shark jumps be repeated.
Dumping Dolphins...? Unrecorded. 
Humping Whales...? Considered sordid.
Kid Care ala Kangaroo 
puts nurse and nursling skin-to-skin.
Marsupials know what to do: 
the bottle’s out; the boob is in.
The ‘L’ in ‘Lame Duck’ holds the key 
to reading weaken'd destiny.
Most reckon Duck a flightless bird. 
Delete one ‘L’: meet Fightless Bird.
Monkey One, who Sees No Evil, 
turns aside from sights medieval.
Monkey Two, who Hears No Evil, 
risks a troublesome upheaval.
Monkey Three, who Speaks No Evil, 
mispronounces ‘Evel Knievel.’
Monkey Four...? He Smells No Evil. 
(Not an ape, his mom’s a weevil.)
The Jaybird, Naked – birthday-suited bawd 
or bare-skinned bel esprit –
appears to be a creature flaw'd: 
sans down, sans gown, sans savoir vi.’
The boys and girls who’re Dumb as Oxen 
all embrace the art of boxin'
so’s to beat on bullies who 
forget they’re Strong as Oxen, too.
“Elephants who’re Pink of hue 
are GOP pro-lifer gals,”
quipp'd VP prospect Sarah P, 
referring to herself and pals.
Clement Moore chose Quiet Mouse 
to haunt his silent Yuletide house.
It’s why one now but rarely hears, 
“No creatures stirr'd, not even steers.”
“You Dirty Rat!” (a Cagney quote 
James never really made, please note)
resembles Banksy’s Moorfields art. 
Can we not take this boy to heart...?
Replace a Sacrificial Lamb 
with Cherrystone or Pismo clam...?
Don’t do it, dude: take my advice! 
They’ll disallow your sacrifice.
They all cite Alligator Tears – 
Will Shakespeare, Spenser and their peers
who scribbl'd in the British Isles 
(though theirs were shed by crocodiles).
I keep an Eastern Cricket Frog. 
I’ve yet to see The Underdog.
Beneath the underdog...? Not hard: 
that’s bassist Charley’s calling card.
“The Cunning Little Vixen Game” 
(Janacek its designer’s name)...?
It’s play'd with feral metaphors. 
[Game not available in stores.]
“Thou damnéd bleachéd Beachéd Whale,” 
one hears vindictive Ahab wail.
“But Moby never hits the beach,” 
might mournful morbid Mapple preach...?
Although they can’t be eighty-sixed, 
the X Ray metaphors seem mixed.
As medic’lly insightful fish, 
each substitutes for God. (I wish.)
The “You Have Two Cows” parable 
as teaching tool proves terrible.
This metaphor for economics...? 
Milk'd by departmental comics.
One mark of Zorros seems to be 
to steer clear of humanity.
Of human friends they’ve fairly few. 
(They do as I would wish to do.)

An "Amos 'n' Anyone" Weekend Radio Programme Guide

Friday 9:30 a.m. through 2:00 p.m.

"Amos 'n' Andy"'s a radio broadcast, like
"Amos 'n' Andy Devine"...
but "Amos 'n' Andrei Gromyko" is not. It's des-
sert without fortified wine.

"Amos 'n' Annas and Caiaphas" sounds much like 
"Amos 'n' Anne of Green Gables"...
while "Amos 'n' 'ansel and Gretel"'s a broadcast which 
vilifies witches ithrough fables. 

"Amos 'n' Angharad Morgan"'s bilingual, like 
"Amos 'n' Angus le Beef."
In "Amos 'n' Andie McDowell," a single mom 
searches for fiscal relief.


Saturday 11:30 a.m. through 4:00 p.m.

"Amos 'n' Anna Magnani" comes on after
"Amos 'n' Angela Merkle"...
but "Amos 'n' Absolom, Absolom"'s off for the 
summer: we've travell'd full circle. 

"Amos 'n' Ant-Man"'s derived from the comics; so's
"Amos 'n' Anchorman Ron."
In "Amos/Han Solo," our hero plays polo. (That
broadcast's a sine qua non.) 

"Amos 'n' Anna Karenina" won several Pea-
bodys – two…maybe three.
But "Amos 'n' Anna Frank's Diary" lost -- as did 
"Amos 'n' Annabel Lee."


Sunday 8:00 p.m. through midnight

Who tunes in "Amos/Anais Nin: Crossdresser"...? 
(I suspect nobody does.) 
As for "Amos 'n' Adlai Stevenson"...? Broadcasts like 
those make my nose muscles buzz.

"Amos 'n' Angel from 'Buffy'" -- and "Amos 'n' 
Anfernee Hardaway"...? Canned...! 
As was "Amos 'n' Androcles" (Fired was the Lion: he
shat in their sound effects sand). 

"Amos 'n' Anderson Cooper"'s okay; likewise 
"Amos 'n' Ast'rix the Gaul"... but announcers who stress the "syl-
lABle finAL" cueing "Amos 'n' Andy WarHOL"...                                             must blue-pencil their cue cards. (That's all!)  

Eight Amerindian Adages (A Nonsense Rhyme)

 
"When his arrow's too narrow," Apaches observe, 

"who's the brave who'll behave with the requisite nerve?"


"When our clans hatch no plans," the Comanches declare,

"each chief’s daughter courts slaughter -- and death without hair."*

 
Notwithstanding Elk’s* efforts with soothsayer's sticks,

ev'ry finely fletch’d feather wet weather predicts.

     * Not the more famous Black Elk but his fellow Oglala called simply Elk. Both men toured with Buffalo Bill's Wild West in 1887.


"Gitche Manitou gives us proportionate rope --

hemp to hang ourselves with," hold the Hopi. (They cope.)


"Building igloos takes ice," elder Inuits drawl;

Jemez* chiefs note, “Al fresco takes nothing at all.” 

    * Pronounced "HEY-mesh." 


"Our kayaks need keels," goes an ancient Kaw fable,

 "like lunch on the lawn needs a one-legged table." 


"March a mile in my moccasins," Mashpees assert,

lest you never know nowt 'bout the nature of hurt."



“Once bitten, twice shy,” pbserve Osage’s sages.

“Who’s bitten three times is a fool for the ages.”

"Discuss re Edgar Allan Poe..." LIt LIte: 101 Exam Questions (A Nonsense Rhyme)

1.    Discuss re Edgar Allan Poe:
may crypts be walled up sans merlot?

2.    Does Ms. Ralph Waldo Emerson
endorse but then condemn her son?

3.    Why must Harriet Stowe (nee Beecher)
write…though not to friends beseech her?

4.    Why does Henry David Thoreau
stumble after one Sapporo?

5.    Though long dead, why can’t Saul Bellow
please return my phone call? (Hello…?) 

6.    Why’s William’s brother, Henry James,
use (like his sibling) two first names?

7.    Pursues his muse, does Steinbeck (John)?
Where roams he? Whither? Thither? Yon?

8.    If novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne
sports a ‘stash, then why’s his jaw shorn?

9.    One “women’s lib”er Salinger’s
work censures: should he challenge hers?

10.  Who’d know if E. L. Doctorow’s
preeminence is knocked or grows?

11.  Which critics savaged Don DeLillo’s
Evening of the Armadillos?

12.  Cooper (Which? James Fenimore):
who cracks Jim’s novels anymore?

13.  True or false: Mark Twain (Sam Clemens)
authors flops, faux pas and lemons.

14.   Who overestimates Walt Whitman?
Be it he who terms Walt “Tit Man”?

15.  Is Washington, whose surname’s Irving,
of a Pulitzer deserving?

16.  Emily (Miss Dickinson):
which critic finds slim pickin’s in?

17.  Will not the child who’s William Faulkner’d
grow up poor white trash (post hoc) nerd?

18.  Which son of Ernest Hemingway
apes Papa in a lemming way?

19.  Do fans of Flannery O’Connor
foist false flattery upon her?

20.  For savorers of Scott Fitzgerald,
does his savoir seem imperiled?

21.  What’s worse: readin’ Willa Cather
or that bleedin’ Cotton Mather?

22.  Will sushi served by Herman Melville
render sev’ral score and twelve ill?

23.  Edward Bear and e. e. cummings:
brainless hums or freakish hummings?

24.  Who’d question T. S. Eliot,
“Excuse, please: where’s the deli at?”?

25.  “But, Dr. Seuss,” asks Edith Wharton,
“who’s the who who hears a Horton?”

26.  True or false: will John Dos Passos
not untie his knotted lassos?

27.  The taken road, to Robert Frost,
is fate. What happens when they’re crossed?

28.  Is he contented, Wallace Stevens,
making do with Whitman’s leavin’s?

29.  “Say ‘cheese,’” some plead of Ezra Pound.
Explain, then parse the man’s raw frown:

30.  Which critic rumored: Gertrude Stein
is issue of a curt, rude line?

31.  For what did Ann sue Arthur Miller –
dough he’d not the heart to will her?

32.  Who confuses Joseph Heller
with that Czechoslovak feller?

33.  Daguerreotypes show Stephen Crane
without his chinstrap beard. Explain.

34.  Why write (as Dreiser, Theodore
does) sordid stuff we all abhor?

35.  Of dramas by Eugene O’Neill
how come we make so big a deal?

36.  Critique Tom Williams (Tennessee)
and his The Glass Menagerie.

37.  Has one-track minded Henry Miller
more to say than “When d’we drill ‘er?”?

38.  Who, when pressed to pick James Agee’s
pizza topping choice, names “Eight-cheese!”?

39.  Why won’t novelist James Baldwin
just admit he wrote The Bald Twin?

40.  True or false: young Sinclair Lewis
posed for Herge’s “Ligne Clair Jewess.”

41.  Tourette’s Syndromed David Mamet:
what’s he blurt besides ‘god-dammit!”?

42.  Explain this quote of Dorothy Parker’s:
“Benchley, Robert’s rad when starkers!”

43.  True or False: did Edna Ferber
pose for dess’nateur James Thurber?

44.  Aren’t names the game of Edward Albee,
framing what each said word shall be?

45.  Re: fam’ly tree of Langston Hughes:
how many branches sang the blues?

46.  How’d Mrs. Sherwood Anderson
know lit’rature would brand her son?

47.  Did Buckley reckon Gore Vidal
his pen- (however horrid) -pal?

48.  Who imagines Harper Lee
shall prove Miss One-Trick Southern B?

49.  Whence pour the stories of John Updike?
(Surely not from one young-pup-like.)

50.  Who disillusioned August Wilson
with, “The master’s dog must kill, son!”?

51.  Name one book by Walker Percy
not displaying talk of mercy.

52.  When didn’t Peter (dubb’d De Vries)
compose in meters framed to please?

53.  Aren’t bookstores banning Norman Mailer’s
works mere pawns of Mormon ralers?

54.  Should Ray – s/f whiz Bradbury –
concoct a Martian Cadbury?

55.  When shooting hoops, will Dashiell Hammett
score…? (Pick one:  ___ He’ll crash. ___ He’ll slam it!)

56.  Which groups would screw Jack Kerouac?
Those groups which do lack care? H.U.A.C?

57.  The drug-soaked texts of William Burroughs:
who’d decipher and endure those?

58.  In gaberdine struts Philip Roth.
Why not in folds of Willa cloth?

59.  Depression-minded William Styron:
what’s preventing William’s tirin’?

60.  Why did author “Tru” Capote
claim he’d written Don Quixote?

61.  Do plays of dramatist Sam Shepard
come with cowboy lingo peppered?

62.  Which lines of Toni Morrison’s
resemble Black-church orisons?

63.  Why did activist Jack London
not receive more arts-group fundin’?

64.  True or False: author Vladimir Nabokov
pens novels which everyday life make a joke of.

65.  Why didn’t author Louisa May Alcott
allow her quartet of “small women” to “talk rot”?

66.  Critics enthuse over Sylvia Plath.
Which critic called her a sociopath?

67.  A femme fatale of Raymond Chandler:
how might Runyon (Damon) handl’ her?

68.  An author like Ralph Ellison:
what folk tales might he tell his son?

69.  Which children’s books did E. B. White,
while authoring a style guide, write?

70.  Why didn’t Joel Chandler Harris
publish Remus Goes to Paris?

71.  True or False: Kurt Vonnegut
displays the true Romani gut.

72.  Compare the style of L. Frank Baum
with those of stylist Some’set Maughm.

73.  In (Lula) Carson (Smith) McCullers,
find her recipe for crullers.

74.  Which characters in Pearl S. Buck
exclaim, in Chinese, “What the f**k?”

75.  Which three sibs of Thornton Wilder
scribbled much like him, though milder?

76.  Is it true that Hunter Thompson
was, in real life, Herbert Lom’s son?

77.  Was critic Warren (Robert Penn)
more niggling than he should have been?

78.  Who balked when Maya Angelou tea
poured for honkeys in Djibouti?

79.  Did “Genius Grant”ee Thomas Pynchon
pen his works with not a stitch on?

80.  Does Allen Ginsberg dis Ken Kesey
with his line, “Full beard too messy?”?

81.  Jerry Craft loved H. P. Lovecraft.
Why did H. P. push and shove Craft?

82.  Why’d confidants of Algren (Nelson)
label him “The Prince of Hell’s Son”?

83.  Explain why author Alice Walker
dropped the charge against her stalker?

84.  True or False: McCarthy (Cormac)
plans new novels even more black.

85.  Explain why author Stephen King
is planning rewrites of The Thing:

86.  Examine Hurston (Zora Neale)
and how injustice made her feel.

87.  What will placate Marg’ret Mitchell?
[Answer: Meg’s becoming rich’ll.]

88.  The poetry of Thomas Paine
he first cooks up prose. Explain:

89. If author Grey’s first name weren’t Zane,
Might he have proved a new Mark Twain?

90. Would Black Boy, penned by Richard Wright,
have sold had Richard’s Boy been white?

91. Which young adults read S. E Hinton?
Kids who cut their teeth on Tintin?

92. John Kennedy Toole (who attended Tulane):
did John's suicide leave an indelible stain?

93. House Speaker Ryan loves Ayn Rand.
Suggest why both should not be banned.

94. Ken Kesey’s widow, Norma Faye,
wed L. McMurtry. What the hey?

95. How’d Alex Haley’s novel Roots
beget no end of stranger fruits?

96. True or false: was Mario Puzo
writing Fools Die, high on ouzo?

97. Dr. Seuss and Dr. Seuss:
Which rhymes with ‘voice’? Which rhymes with ‘juice’?

98. Did visions viewed by Philip Dick
make Dick a frickin’ lunatic?

99. How come the dates of Ambrose Bierce
lap over those of Franklin Pierce?

100. True or false: did Frederick Douglass
live his long life Jitterbugless? 

101. James Higgins: just one work to date.
Did Jim bloom early? Or too late?

     List of Authors treated: 

Agee, James    x 

Albee, Edward   x 

Alcott, Louisa May   x 

Algren, Nelson   x 

Anderson, Sherwood   x 

Angelou, Maya   x 

Baldwin, James     x 

Baum, L. Frank   x 

Bellow, Saul   x 

Bierce, Ambrose   x 

Bradbury, Ray   x 

Buck, Pearl S   x. 

Buckley, William F.   x

Burroughs, William   x 

Capote, Truman   x

Cather, Willa   x 

Chandler, Raymond   x

Cooper, James Fennimore   x 

Craft, Jerry   x 

Crane, Stephen   x 

cummings, e. e   x

DeLillo, Don   x 

De Vries, Peter   x 

Dick, Philip   x 

Dickinson, Emily   x 

Doctorow, E. L.   x 

Dos Passos, John   x

Douglass, Frederick   x 

Dreiser, Theodore   x 

Eliot, T. S.   x 

Ellison, Ralph   x 

Emerson, Ralph Waldo   x 

Faulkner, William   x 

Ferber, Edna   x 

Fitzgerald, F. Scott   x 

Frost, Robert   x 

Ginsberg, Allan   x 

Grey, Zane   x 

Haley, Alex   x 

Hammett, Dashiel   x 

Harris, Joel Chandler   x 

Hawthorne, Nathaniel   x

Heller, Joseph   x 

Hemingway, Ernest   x 

Hinton, S. E.  x

Hughes, Langston   x 

Hurston, Zora Neale   x 

Irving, Washington   x 

James, Henry   x 

Kerouac, Jack   x 

Kesey, Ken   x 

King, Stephen   x 

Lee, Harper   x 

Lewis, Sinclair   x 

London, Jack   x 

Lovecraft, H. P.   x

Mailer, Norman   x 

Mamet, David   x 

Mather, Cotton   x 

Maughm, Somerset   x

McCarthy, Cormac   x

McCullers, Carson   x 

McMurtry, Larry   x 

Melville, Herman   x 

Miller, Arthur   x

Miller, Henry   x

Mitchell, Margaret   x 

Morrison, Toni   x

Nabokov, Vladimir   x

O’Connor, Flannery   x 

O’Neill, Eugene   x

Paine, Thomas   x 

Parker, Dorothy   x 

Percy, Walker   x 

Plath, Sylvia   x

Poe, Edgar Allan   x

Pound, Ezra   x  

Puzo, Mario   x 

Pynchon, Thomas   x 

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Rand, Ayn   x 

Roth, Philip   x 

Runyon, Damon   x

Salinger. J. D.   x  

Seuss, Dr.   x 

Shepard, Sam   x

Stein. Gertrude   x 

Steinbeck, John   x

Stevens. Wallace   x 

Stowe, Harriet Beecher   x

Styron, William   x

Thoreau, Henry David   x

Thompson, Hunter   x 

Thurber, James   x 

Toole, John Kennedy   x 

Twain, Mark   x

Updike, John   x 

Vidal, Gore   x 

Vonnegut, Kurt   x 

Walker, Alice   x

Warren, Robert Penn   x

Wharton, Edith   x

White, E. B.   x 

Whitman, Walt   x

Wilder, Thornton   x 

Williams, Tennessee   x

Wilson, August   x

Wright, Richard   x