RIP: Maurice Sendak, at 83

Maurice Sendak, the beloved author and illustrator of Where The Wild Things Are, has died after complications from a recent stroke. He was 83.

Sendak won nearly every major book award, including the Caldecott Medal, considered the Pulitzer Prize of children's book illustration. He had lived with his partner, Eugene Glynn, for 50 years before Glynn's death in 2007.

Watch an excerpt from the documentary Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak here.

[nyt]