Maurice Sendak

2026· 4 entries

Aug 18, 2026Documented record76% confidence

“Children are full humans, compromised only by their lack of vocabulary and practice in reporting how they live. But they live as fully as Sendak himself lived right up to his last months and weeks and hours. ... [S]ome more sentimental scrap of me (that he would have scorned) hopes he is settling down to some nice bowl of chicken soup with rice with Emily Dickinson or Herman Melville. Though they have been impatient to meet him in person for a very long time, no doubt they”

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Aug 18, 2026Documented record76% confidence

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“She treated me like a hothouse flower, watered me for ten years, and hand-picked the works that were to become my permanent backlist and bread-and-butter support.”

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Apr 24, 2026Documented record76% confidence

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The New York Times: Maurice Sendak

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Jan 8, 2026Documented record69% confidence

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Publishers Weekly: Books by Maurice Sendak and Complete Book Reviews

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2025· 1 entry

Sep 11, 2025Documented record69% confidence

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Wall Street Journal: Children’s Books: Maurice Sendak’s ‘Hansel and Gretel’

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2024· 1 entry

Jan 28, 2024Documented record75% confidence

Maurice Sendak

The Guardian: Meeting Maurice Sendak, the provocative author of Where the Wild Things Are, in 1984

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2023· 2 entries

Jun 21, 2023Documented record69% confidence

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Yahoo: Presto! Rare Maurice Sendak picture story, 'Ten Little Rabbits,' will be published in 2024

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Feb 9, 2023Documented record69% confidence

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Hyperallergic: Maurice Sendak’s Life Among the Wild Things

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2022· 2 entries

Nov 16, 2022Documented record70% confidence

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That the most checked-out book in the collection was Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are

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Nov 7, 2022Documented record69% confidence

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Smithsonian Magazine: Maurice Sendak Imagined More Than Wild Things

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2021· 1 entry

Aug 27, 2021Documented record75% confidence

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The Guardian: Chris Riddell: ‘Maurice Sendak taught us playfulness could be profound’

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2019· 1 entry

Jun 16, 2019Documented record69% confidence

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Artnet: See How Beloved Children’s Illustrator Maurice Sendak Brought His ‘Wild’ Drawings to Life on the Stage in a New Exhibition

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2017· 1 entry

Jul 7, 2017Documented record75% confidence

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The Guardian: Lost Maurice Sendak picture book to be published next year

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2016· 1 entry

Mar 29, 2016Documented record75% confidence

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The Guardian: 10 wild facts about Maurice Sendak's Where The Wild Things Are

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2013· 2 entries

Jun 10, 2013Documented record70% confidence

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Google featured an interactive doodle where visitors could click on the video go triangle to see an animated movie-ette of Max and Sendak's other main characters

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2013Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Sendak has two elementary schools named in his honor, one in North Hollywood, California, and PS 118 in Brooklyn, New York

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2012· 12 entries

May 8, 2012Documented record69% confidence

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The Hollywood Reporter: Maurice Sendak’s Death Prompts Outpouring of Twitter Mourning

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May 8, 2012Documented record66% confidence

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At age 83, due to complications from a stroke

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May 8, 2012Documented record86% confidence

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Died 2012-05-08.

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c. 2012Exact date was not recorded in the sourceDirect quote68% confidence

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“I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate fantasy to children, as though it were some tomfoolery only fit for the immature minds of the young. Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.”

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c. 2012Exact date was not recorded in the sourceDirect quote67% confidence

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“I don't believe in things literally for children. That's a reduction.”

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c. 2012Exact date was not recorded in the sourceDirect quote67% confidence

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“We've educated children to think that spontaneity is inappropriate. Children are willing to expose themselves to experiences. We aren't. Grownups always say they protect their children, but they're really protecting themselves. Besides, you can't protect children. They know everything.”

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c. 2012Exact date was not recorded in the sourceDirect quote68% confidence

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“Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.”

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“You cannot write for children... They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.”

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“I’m gay. I just didn’t think it was anybody’s business … All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.”

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2012Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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School Library Journal named Where the Wild Things Are as its top picture book based on reader surveys

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c. 2012Exact date was not recorded in the sourceDirect quote67% confidence

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“When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.”

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“One of the few graces of getting old — and God knows there are few graces — is that if you’ve worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is the splendid grace. And I think that is what’s happening to me.”

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2011· 2 entries

2011Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Maurice was working on a book about noses, and he attributed his love of the olfactory organ to his brother Jack, who, in Sendak's opinion, had a great nose

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2011Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Sendak adapted his Sesame Street short Bumble Ardy into a children's book, his first in over thirty years, and ultimately his last published work before his death

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2007· 2 entries

Jan 1, 2007Documented record84% confidence

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“I did not want to die with him.”

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Jan 1, 2007Documented record88% confidence

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“When I did Bumble-ardy, I was so intensely aware of death,”

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2005· 1 entry

2005Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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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 adaptation

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2004· 1 entry

2004Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Sendak worked with the Shirim Klezmer Orchestra in Boston on their project Pincus and the Pig: A Klezmer Tale

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2003· 4 entries

Jun 15, 2003Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (2003).

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2003Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Recognizing his career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense"

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2003Source gives the year onlyDocumented record72% confidence

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They never, never, never knew." Sendak's relationship with Glynn was referenced by other writers before (including Tony Kushner in 2003) and Glynn's 2007 death notice identified Sendak as his "partner of fifty years".

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