- Died four-and-a-half months before the Broadway premiere of "Candide", for which he wrote some of the lyrics.
- In 1955 he provided additional lyrics for Leonard Bernstein's Candide.
- He became involved in music and theater, writing for the Varsity Show and joining the Philolexian Society. He did not graduate.
- The New York Theatre Company produced Taking a Chance on Love - The Lyrics and Life of John LaTouche, A New Musical Revue ("The Bad Boy of Broadway Is Back") in 2000, with notes by Ned Rorem (recorded by Original Cast Records).
- Latouche was a protégé of James Branch Cabell and friends with writers Gore Vidal and Jack Woodford.
- N 1955, he collaborated with co-writer Sam Locke and composer James Mundy on the Carol Channing vehicle The Vamp, which closed after a run of only 60 performances.
- Latouche wrote the book and lyrics for The Golden Apple (1954) with music by Jerome Moross; it won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical.
- He appeared as The Gangster in the experimental film Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947). He returned to music, writing the lyrics for the song "The Girl With the Pre-Fabricated Heart" (music by Louis Applebaum), which accompanies a sequence conceived by French artist Fernand Léger.
- Latouche also wrote the libretto to Douglas Moore's opera The Ballad of Baby Doe, one of the few American operas to join the standard repertoire.
- For the show Sing For Your Supper (1939), he wrote the lyrics for "Ballad for Uncle Sam", later retitled "Ballad for Americans", with music by Earl Robinson. It was featured at both the 1940 Republican Convention and the convention of the American Communist Party, and was extremely popular in 1940s America. This 13-minute cantata to American democracy was written for a soloist and as well a full orchestra. When performed on the CBS Radio network by singer Paul Robeson, it became a national success. Subsequently, both Robeson and Bing Crosby regularly performed it. Actor and singer Brock Peters also made a notable recording of the cantata.
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