Maurice Sendak, the children's book author and illustrator who saw the sometimes-dark side of childhood in books like "Where the Wild Things Are" and "In the Night Kitchen," died early Tuesday. He was ...

Maurice Sendak, “Diorama of Moishe scrim and flower proscenium (Where the Wild Things Are)” (1979-1983) watercolor, pen and ink, and graphite pencil on laminated paperboard (© The Maurice Sendak ...

DENVER — A new exhibition called “Wild Things: The Art of Maurice Sendak” comes to the Denver Art Museum next week, presenting a plethora of art created by Sendak, the illustrator and author of the ...

Maurice Sendak is probably best known to the children of America for having written and illustrated “Where the Wild Things Are” (1963). Sendak died in 2012, yet his work continues with “Hansel and ...

Maurice Sendak was my first real author. Before Dostoevsky and Dickens. Before Fitzgerald and Alice Walker and Hemingway and Lermontov. Now he is gone. And that makes me very sad. Among his last books ...

Very sad news this morning: Maurice Sendak, the author of Where the Wild Things Are, has died at the age of 83, The New York Times reports. The Times' Margalit Fox writes the cause of death was ...