Author of Children’s & Christian Story Books, Dies: Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928-May 8, 2012)
While Sendak’s most frequently read authored novels were not always story book sagations of real-life drama. Often choosing himself as a model, Sendak’s artistic allegory paralleled childhood and youth without direct reference being made to any one person in particular. The stodgy and rather dark reservoir of his life–a gay man spending much of his time alone– served him as a stage for the novel, ‘We Are All IN The Dumps’, a story that speaks volumes about the life of childhood spent enduring the throws of homelessness.
Maurice Sendak did not spend all of his life offering renderings of his woildest imaginings–he actually worked on a real job. For FAO Schwartz at the age of 20, Sendalk built display windows, a taks that was descriptive of his fettish for art. The work in department stores proved beneficial to young Maurice. Sendak’s job was the catylist for his first illustration–a jaunt that was assisted after his meeting with children’s book author and department store owner, Ursula Nordstrom. Later, in Brooklyn Sendak worked for All American Comics and, while at his best, the young writer mentored writers whose works emerged to the height of such greatness as Arthur Yorinks, Richard Egliski and Paul O. Zelinsky, all of whom were young authors and illustrators of the art.
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Throughout his career, Sendak met with people who motivated ticket sales and moved audiences to laughter and tears. With Playwrites and Meastros, Maurice Sendak expanded his horizon as theatre was included in his aesthetic gravity.
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By 1996, Maurice Sendak had ammassed prosperity and noteriety winning the Hans Christian Anderson Award, the National Medal of Arts which was preceeded by the Laurel Ingles Wilder Award and presented to him by President Bill Clinton.
In 2009, a documentary commentary produced and directed by Spike Jonze in which Jonze reflected on the aurthor’s first production broadcast via HBO. The documentary covered Sendak’s feature film rendition of ‘Where The Wild Things Are.’ In Brussels, the Glyndebourne Opera performed the lyrics, also written by Sendak for the novel ‘Where the Wild Things Are’*
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