Maurice Sendak, father of the Wild Things, dies at 83

Maurice Sendak, American born author of Where the Wild Things Are, has died at the age of 83. Over a career that began in the late 1940s he illustrated more than 100 books and wrote more than 20, but it was Where the Wild Things Are, published in 1963, that made his name internationally, selling over 17m copies. [...] "I refuse to lie to children," he said in an interview with the Guardian last year. "I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence."

source: Article 'Maurice Sendak, father of the Wild Things, dies at 83' by Michelle Pauli; www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/08/maurice-sendak-wild-things-dies-83; guardian.co.uk; 8 May 2012