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The man behind Where the Wild Things Are caught the attention of millions of children.
"Scaring children is my particular hobby," Maurice Sendak once remarked. And indeed, the author and illustrator took children's books - though he despised the term - to new, dark places.
He confronted children's fears head on, and they loved him for it. Where the Wild Things Are, his most famous book, sold more than 10 million copies worldwide.
Maurice Bernard Sendak was born in New York in June 1928. The child of Polish-Jewish immigrants, he was raised in a world of impending terrors: the Depression, the Second World War.
A sickly child, he spent a lot of time...