Maurice Sendak, 83, Author of Splendid Nightmares, Dead

By For Your Consideration on May 8, 2012 | In News | Send feedback »

From the New York Times:

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.

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This was a great interview with Mr. Sendak on Colbert: Part 1

Continued - Part 2

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