Who is Maurice Sendak?

Brought up in Brooklyn, with parents who left a Poland of virulent anti-Semitism, little Maurice absorbed his parents’ fears for safety and the somber, frightening characters of their shtetl stories and later, the Holocaust. Sendak, who had serious childhood illnesses, admits readily that he was not “out playing stickball in the street” or engaging easily with others. So when Sendak talks about “my first frightened child book,” he says, “It was sad, but they were in for it.

€ Sendak says he never forgave an uncle for scaring him witless and then denigrating him as worthless after the kidnapping and death of the Lindbergh baby. Little Maurice couldn’t sleep at night unless his father slept on the bedroom floor clutching a baseball bat to safeguard his children. €œThis is where my insomnia started,” Sendak said.

€œIf they could take a blond, blue-eyed baby with nannies and guard dogs, how much more easily they could take me. € But his uncle said to Maurice’s father, “Philip, who would want ... more.

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