In 1970, he won the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration,
and so far, he is the only American to do so.
He lives in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22maurice+sendak%22&btnG=Google+Search
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"Let the Wild Rumpus Start! "Sendak on Sendak" at the Rosenbach
Museum" (Philadelphia)
First paragraph:
Maurice Sendak once received a letter from an 8-year-old asking, "How
much does it cost to get to where the wild things are? If it's not
expensive, my sister and I would like to spend the summer there."
(There's fascinating, grim stuff about his childhood in the article -
as well as why he relates to Carroll's Alice Liddell.)
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=24537
"Sendak's 80th Birthday Bash: I'll Be You and You Be Me at the
Rosenbach Museum"
http://www.mcall.com/entertainment/all-sendak.6415119may25,0,7255013.story
More on the museum exhibit.
Excerpt:
In one amusing clip discussing William Blake, Sendak describes the
19th-century British poet as ''a flaming maniac,'' adding that is
''the best compliment'' he could give an artist.
http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/18808299.html
Even more!
"A Rosenbach retrospective re-creates Maurice Sendak's view of
childhood - before adults took it over."
http://www.theage.com.au/news/books/hollywood-where-wild-things-arent/2008/05/22/1211183000566.html
(About the debate over "Where the Wild Things Are" and the upcoming
movie.)
I met him five years ago at M.I.T. He had Beatrix Potter's walking
stick with him - though he certainly didn't look old enough to be
using it!
In 1993, he and Art Spiegelman did a cartoon piece for the New Yorker,
as well as the cover. (That was soon after the release of "We Are All
in the Dumps With Jack & Guy.") The cartoon Sendak did most of the
talking in the piece.
Lenona.
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