Maurice Sendak was born on June 10, 1928 in New York City and died of a stroke on May 8, 2012, at a hospital in Danbury, Connecticut at 83 years old. When he was a boy, he was often sick. Thus, he spent a lot of time drawing and he became very good at it. When he was in high school, his drawings landed him a job at the All-American Comics. Therefore, he was first an illustrator rather than a writer. He illustrated more than 80 books, for authors such as Ruth Krauss and Else Holmelund Minarik, before writing his first book, Kenny's Window, in 1956. His most recognized book is Where the Wild Things Are, which he wrote in
