Maurice Sendak

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Maurice Sendak
Writer, illustrator, producer

The extraordinary Maurice Sendak has sold millions of copies of Where the Wild Things Are (1963) and In the Night Kitchen (1970); most recently, he collaborated with Tony Kushner on Brundibar (the book debuted in 2003, the play in 2006). Sendak, now 80, has designed operas, won myriad honors, spawned everything from stuffed monsters to lunch boxes, and inspired generations of dreamy kids. In October, the Wild Things feature film will premiere. An improbably hip, moodily gorgeous affair, it's being brought to the screen by a formidable team: director Spike Jonze; screenwriter Dave Eggers; stars Catherine Keener, Mark Ruffalo, and James Gandolfini; and Arcade Fire and Karen O (of Yeah Yeah Yeahs), who are providing music. Let the wild rumpus begin! -- Anya Kamenetz

Maurice Sendak

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Maurice Sendak

May 22, 2009 - 5:05pm by Anonymous.

There's an amazing interview online with Sendak about his work and childhood from the Rosenbach Museum & Library, which houses the entire collection of original Sendak materials. Check out http://www.rosenbach.org & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZTQib7G2Hs

May 22, 2009 - 2:01pm by Rob Loach.

I can't wait for the movie!!!! http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/wherethewildthingsare/ ......... Arcade Fire + movie trailers = win!

May 20, 2009 - 6:30pm by Lynne d Johnson.

"Let the rumpus begin!" as a closer, is a play on "Let the rumpus start." If you notice, it's not listed at the beginning of the write up where a listing of Sendak's work is listed. It doesn't say, Sendak also wrote, "Let the wild rumpus begin!"

May 20, 2009 - 4:13pm by Anonymous.

What a horrendous error, whether deliberate or inadvertent... Mr. Sendak wrote, "Let the wild rumpus start!" and changing that to "begin" for whatever reason is like changing Descartes' quote to "I consider, therefore I am" or Springsteen's lyric to "Born in America." And it would have been simple enough to look up!

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Quotes

"I will do something yet that is purely for me but will create for someone in the future that passion that Blake and Keats did in me."
- Concerns Beyond Just Where the Wild Things Are, Source

"You dive deep and God help you. You could hit your head on something and never come up and nobody would even know you were missing. Or, you will find some nugget that was worth the pain in your chest, the blindness, everything, and you'll come up with it and that will be what you went down for. In other words, you either risk it or you sell out."
- An Interview with Maurice Sendak, Source

"I essentially work to please myself. What other reason can there be when there’s nothing to prove anymore? But you also have to have high standards. Just to please yourself isn’t sufficient."
- Maurice Sendak: A Portrait of the Illustrator for Children As a Middle-Aged Man, Source

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Maurice Bernard Sendak (born June 10, 1928, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American writer and illustrator of children's literature who is best known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, published in 1963. An elementary school (from kindergarten to grade five) in North Hollywood, California, is named in his honor. -- Wikipedia (5/15/2009).

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