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Maurice Sendak (1928-)
Maurice Sendak was born in Brooklyn, NY, to Polish-Jewish immigrant parents. His illustrations were first published in 1947 in a textbook and he spent much of the 1950s illustrating children’s books before beginning to write his own stories. His book Where the Wild Things Are won the 1964 Caldecott Medal and generations of children quote from In the Night Kitchen, Really Rosie, and Bumble Ardy. In 1970 he collaborated with playwright Tony Kushner to create the stage sets and a book for the children’s opera, Brundibar, composed be Czech Jewish composer Hans Krasa and performed in the Terezin concentration camp during the Holocaust. He created the illustrations for the tales included in I.B. Singer’s book Zlateh the Goat (HarperCollins Publishers, 1966), and illustrated Singer’s story Yash (The Saturday Evening Post, May 4, 1968). His collection of nearly 10,000 works of art, manuscripts, books, and ephemera has been the subject of many museum exhibitions, films and documentaries.
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