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From: Miriam Lang Budin <miriammeister_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 09:21:41 -0400
A giant has passed.
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From: NYTimes.com News Alert Date: Tue, May 8, 2012 at 8:44 AM Subject: News Alert: Maurice Sendak, Author of 'Where the Wild Things Are,' Dies at 83 To: miriammeister_at_gmail.com
Breaking News Alert The New York Times Tuesday, May 8, 2012 -- 8:39 AM EDT
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Maurice Sendak, Author of ‘Where the Wild Things Are,’ Dies at 83
Maurice Sendak, widely considered the most important children’s book arti st 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 and lived in Ridgefield, Conn.
The cause was complications from a recent stroke, said Michael di Capua, his longtime editor.
Roundly praised, intermittently censored and occasionally eaten, Mr. Sendak’s books were essential ingredients of childhood for the generation born after 1960 or thereabouts, and in turn for their children. He was known in particular for more than a dozen picture books he wrote and illustrated himself, most famously “Where the Wild Things Are,” which w as simultaneously genre-breaking and career-making when it was published by Harper & Row in 1963.
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Received on Tue 08 May 2012 09:21:41 AM CDT
Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 09:21:41 -0400
A giant has passed.
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From: NYTimes.com News Alert Date: Tue, May 8, 2012 at 8:44 AM Subject: News Alert: Maurice Sendak, Author of 'Where the Wild Things Are,' Dies at 83 To: miriammeister_at_gmail.com
Breaking News Alert The New York Times Tuesday, May 8, 2012 -- 8:39 AM EDT
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Maurice Sendak, Author of ‘Where the Wild Things Are,’ Dies at 83
Maurice Sendak, widely considered the most important children’s book arti st 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 and lived in Ridgefield, Conn.
The cause was complications from a recent stroke, said Michael di Capua, his longtime editor.
Roundly praised, intermittently censored and occasionally eaten, Mr. Sendak’s books were essential ingredients of childhood for the generation born after 1960 or thereabouts, and in turn for their children. He was known in particular for more than a dozen picture books he wrote and illustrated himself, most famously “Where the Wild Things Are,” which w as simultaneously genre-breaking and career-making when it was published by Harper & Row in 1963.
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