Maurice Sendak

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Maurice Bernard Sendak (June 10, 1928 – May 8, 2012) was an American illustrator and writer of children's books.

He became well-known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, first published in 1963.

Born to Polish-Jewish parents during the Holocaust, his childhood was affected by the deaths of several of his relatives' relatives.

In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There, and several other writers' books, including Else Holmelund Minarik's Little Bear books, were also illustrated by Sendak.

Early life

Sendak was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Polish Jewish immigrants Sadie (née Schindler) and Philip Sendak, a dressmaker. Sendak characterized his childhood as a "terrible situation" as a result of the death of members of his extended family during the Holocaust, which introduced him at a young age to the concept of mortality. As a child, he suffered with health problems and was confined to his bed. After watching Walt Disney's film Fantasia, he decided to become an illustrator when he was 12 years old. One of his first professional commissions was to create window displays for the toy store FAO Schwarz. Maxwell Leigh Eidinoff's Atomics for the Millions was first published in 1947 in a book called Atomics for the Millions. He spent a substantial portion of the 1950s illustration children's books that had been published by others before beginning to write his own stories.

Jack Sendak, his older brother, became an author of children's books, two of which were illustrated by Maurice in the 1950s.

Maurice was the youngest of three siblings. Natalie was 9 years old when he was born, and Jack was five years old.

Personal life

In a September 2008 article in The New York Times, Sendak said he was gay and had lived with his partner, psychoanalyst Eugene David Glynn (February 25, 1926 – May 15, 2007,) for 50 years before Glynn's death in May 2007. He denied that he ever told his parents, saying, "All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be content." Never thought about it." Other writers had already written about Sendak's friendship with Glynn, and Glynn's 2007 death notice identified Sendak as his "partner of fifty years." Sendak donated $1 million to the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services in honor of Glynn's treatment of young people there after his partner's death. The gift will be named after a Glynn clinic.

Sendak was an atheist. In a 2011 interview, he said he did not believe in God and that the belief in God "should not have made life much simpler [for some religious friends of his]. We non-believers find it much more difficult.

Maurice Sendak drew inspiration and inspiration from a large number of artists, musicians, and writers. Going back to his youth, one of his early influences was actually his father, Philip Sendak. According to Maurice, his father will tell tales from the Torah but would embellish them with profane information. After retelling his father's "softcore Bible stories" at school, not realizing that this was inappropriate for children, little Maurice would often be sent home.

Sendak emerged from other influences, beginning with Walt Disney's Fantasia and Mickey Mouse. Sendak and Mickey Mouse were born in the same year, and Sendak described Mickey Mouse as a source of joy and delight when growing up. "My gods are Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Mozart," he said. I believe in them with all my heart." "I have a little bit of Emily Dickinson's books that help him to stay calm in an otherwise chaotic world." Emily's poems are just three. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a vivacious little lady. I feel better. "I am in syncident with something I can't explain when Mozart is playing in my room." ... I don't have to worry about it. I know that if there is a point in life, it was for me to hear Mozart."

Ursula Nordstrom, the founder of Harper's Department of Boys and Girls from 1940 to 1973, was also a source of Sendak.

Sendak died in Danbury, Connecticut, at the age of 83, from stroke complications a month before his 84th birthday. His body was cremated and his ashes were scattered in a place that has yet to be announced, in accordance with his wishes.

Sendak was named "the most influential children's book artist of the twentieth century" by the New York Times. "He was grumpy, hysterical, magical, and magical, and he made the world a better place by creating art in it," author Neil Gaiman said. Sendak's death, according to author R. L. Stine, "was a sad day in children's books and in the world."

Stephen Colbert, a comedian who appeared in Sendak in one of his last public appearances on his television show The Colbert Report, said of the author: "We are all honored to have been briefly invited into his family." I Am a Pole, Sendak's appearance on the show's January 2012 episode showed Colbert how to illustrate and provide a book blurb for Colbert's own book I Am a Pole (And So Can You). (The day Sendak died was also the book's official release date.

The Nutcracker, the 2012 season of the Pacific Northwest Ballet, for which Sendak conceived the set and costumes, was dedicated to his memory.

Nick Jr. hosted a two-hour Little Bear marathon in his honor on May 12, 2012. Else Holmelund Minarik's author died just two months later on July 12, 2012, at the age of 91.

Bumble-Ardy, his last book, was published eight months before his death. In February 2013, My Brother's Book, a posthumous picture book, was published.

Her was made in honor of him and Where the Wild Things Are co-star James Gandolfini. Spike Jonze, who also produced the 2009 feature film version of Where the Wild Things Are, produced the film.

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Career

Sendak's international success began when writing and illustrating Where the Wild Things Are edited by Ursula Nordstrom of Harper & Row. It features Max, a young boy who "rages against his mother for being sent to bed without a supper." When it was first published, the book's depictions of fanged monsters piqued some parents as his characters were somewhat grotesque in appearance. Sendak was best known for illustrating Else Holmelund Minarik's Little Bear series of books before Where the Wild Things Are.

The reaction of a fan was described by Sendak later in the story: he recalled it.

Almost 50 years ago, School Library Journal sponsored a reader poll that found Where the Wild Things Are as a top picture book. The librarian who supervised it found that there was little doubt about what would be voted number one and that one reader characterized it as a "ushering in the new age of picture books." Another said it is "fully made, exquisitely illustrated" and that Sendak "rises above the average in part because he is submissive."

On the desk of an editor at Harper & Row, Sendak saw a manuscript of Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer's first children's book, he offered to illustrate it. It was first published in 1966 and received a Newbery Award. Sendak was thrilled and awed about the collaboration. When he worked with Singer, he once remarked that his parents were "finally" impressed by their youngest child.

In the Night Kitchen, his book that was first published in 1970, has been subjected to censorship for its drawings of a young boy prancing naked through the story. Many states in the United States, including Illinois, New Jersey, Minnesota, and Texas, have tested the book. The Night Kitchen is on the American Library Association's list of "frequently challenged and banned books." It was ranked number 21 on the "100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999" list.

Outside Over There, a boy named Ida and her sibling jealousy and responsibilities was chronicled in his 1981 book Outside the Door. Ida is left to watch her baby sister, much to her dismay. Her father is away, so she is left to watch her baby sister. Goblins kidna her sister, and Ida must go on a mystical journey to rescue her. At first, she isn't keen to get her sister and nearly passes her sister right by when she enters the quest's magic. In the end, she saves her baby sister, destroys the goblins, and returns home committed to caring for her sister until her father returns home.

During the creation of the Children's Television Workshop's National Board of Advisors, Sendak was a pioneer in the Sesame Street television program. He also converted Bumble Ardy's book Bumble Ardy into an animated sequence for the film, with Jim Henson as the voice of Bumble Ardy. Seven Monsters (which never aired), Up & Down, and Broom Adventures were among his animated stories for the series.

Sendak produced an animated television series based on his drawing titled Really Rosie, which starred Carole King's voice and was broadcast in 1975 and is now available on DVD (mostly as part of video compilations of his work). An album of the songs was also released. He was a guest on Simple Gifts, a Christmas series of six animated shorts on PBS that was later released on VHS in 1993. In 1979, he adapted Where the Wild Things Are for the stage. In addition,, he produced sets and costumes for several operas and ballets, including the award-winning (1983) Pacific Northwest Ballet production of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, Glyndebourne Festival Opera's production of Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges (1982), Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges and L'heure espagnole (1987), and Oliver Knussen's tribute to Sendak's More to Life (1985), Mozart's The Magic Flute (1981) and Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel (1997), Los Angeles County Music Center's 1990 production of Mozart's Idomeneo (1981), and Mozart's The Goose of Cairo (1984) are among the many works to live (1984).

In 1993, Sendak published We Are Both in the Dumps with Jack and Guy. Sendak's children's Holocaust opera Brundibár later in the 1990s contacted playwright Tony Kushner to write a new English-language translation of Czech composer Hans Krása's children's Holocaust opera Brundibár. The text for Sendak's illustrated book of the same name was written by Kushner, who was released in 2003. The book was named one of the Best Illustrated Books of 2003 by The New York Times Book Review.

Sendak and Kushner's interpretation of Brundibár appeared at the Chicago Opera Theatre in 2003. Berkeley Repertory Theatre, in collaboration with Yale Repertory Theatre and Broadway's New Victory Theater, produced a substantially re-worked version of the Sendak-Kushner version in 2005.

Sendak appeared with the Shirim Klezmer Orchestra in Boston in 2004 on their project Pincus and the Pig: A Klezmer Tale. This is a Klezmer version of Sergei Prokofiev's best-known musical tale for children. Peter and the Wolf featured Maurice Sendak as the narrator. He also illustrated the cover art.

Seven Little Monsters, a Canadian-produced children's animated television film, was also created by Sendak.

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