Lamda Literary is reporting that the beloved author of the iconic yet contronversial childrens’ book Where the Wild Things Are has died of a stroke at the age of 83. Sendak illustrated over 100 children’s books in his career, many of which have been adapted to film, television, and the stage. He came out of the closet in 2008 in a New York Times interview shortly after his longtime partner of 50 years passed away. In its memorial, the NYT said that Sendak was “widely considered the most important childrens’ author of the 20th century, who wrenched the picture book out of the safe, sanitized world of the nursery and plunged it into the dark, terrifying and hauntingly beautiful recesses of the human psyche”
– Marsian is a Los Angeles-based puppet artist, chanteuse, and high art drag personality. MarsianDeLellis.com
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