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Maurice Sendak

Children's author and illustrator

United States · 1928–2012

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American illustrator and writer, author of Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen and Outside Over There. His partner of nearly fifty years, the psychoanalyst Eugene Glynn, died of cancer in 2007, and Sendak wrote and drew his last book, Bumble-ardy, while nursing him. He died of complications of a stroke in May 2012, eight months after the Fresh Air conversation quoted here.

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Question What is the most important lesson life has taught you? Time & hindsight read 136 other answers →
Yes. I'm not unhappy about becoming old. I'm not unhappy about what must be. It makes me cry only when I see my friends go before me and life is emptied. I don't believe in an afterlife, but I still fully expect to see my brother again. ... But, you know, there's something I'm finding out as I'm aging that I am in love with the world. And I look right now, as we speak together, out my window in my studio and I see my trees and my beautiful, beautiful maples that are hundreds of years old, they're beautiful. And you see I can see how beautiful they are. I can take time to see how beautiful they are. It is a blessing to get old. It is a blessing to find the time to do the things, to read the books, to listen to the music.
Recorded Terry Gross, Fresh Air, NPR — recorded by telephone in September 2011, his last interview, 20 September 2011 source ↗

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