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Maurice Sendak
| born |
June 10, 1928
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| died |
May 08, 2012 |
| gender |
male |
| place of birth |
Brooklyn, New York, The United States |
| genre |
Arts & Photography, Children's Books, Science Fiction & Fantasy |
| influences |
[a:William Blake|13453|William Blake|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1199069675p2/13453.jpg], [a:Antoine Watteau|795344|Antoine Watteau|http://www.goodreads.com/assets/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg], [a:Francisco Goya|162595|Francisco Goya|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1217442941p2/162595.jpg], [a:Winsor McCay|224293|Winsor McCay|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1237714831p2/224293.jpg] |
about this author
Maurice Bernard Sendak is an American writer and illustrator of children's literature who is best known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, published in 1963. An elementary school (from kindergarten to grade five) in North Hollywood, California is named in his honor.
Sendak was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Polish-Jewish immigrant parents, and decided to become an illustrator after viewing Walt Disney's film Fantasia at the age of twelve. His illustrations were first published in 1947 in a textbook titled Atomics for the Millions by Dr. Maxwell Leigh Eidinoff. He spent much of the 1950s working as an artist for children's books, before beginning to write his own stories.
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