'Where the Wild Things Are' author Maurice Sendak dies

His curmudgeonly persona became as much a part of his legend as his most famous children's book, Where the Wild Things Are, which earned him a Caldecott Medal for the best children's picture book of 1964 and became a hit movie in 2009.

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May 8 (Bloomberg) — Maurice Sendak, whose “Where the Wild Things Are” upset parents and psychologists in 1963 and became an international best-seller that helped change the placid world of children's books, has died. He was 83.

Maurice Sendak, writer and illustrator of beloved children's picture books Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen, passed away today of complications stemming from a recent stroke. He was 83.