Maurice Sendak, widely considered the most important children’s book artist of the 20th century, who wrenched the picture book out of the safe, sanitized world of the nursery and plunged it into the dark, terrifying and hauntingly beautiful recesses of the human psyche, died on Tuesday in Danbury, Conn. He was 83.
you may know him as the author of ..
"Where the wild things are"
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/bo...ies-at-83.html
He was most def one of my favorite authors...i will truly miss his creativeness and ability to understand and convey the realities of seeing life through a child's eye.....