Illustrator and author Maurice Sendak died today at the age of 83 near his Connecticut home, The New York Times first reported. Sendak’s incomparable books—Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, Chicken Soup with Rice, and, most recently Bumble-Ardy, among many others—presented a melancholy, unsettling view of childhood—and adulthood—in which bad things happen to fine people for no real reason. “No one has been more uncompromising, more idiosyncratic, and more in touch with the…
Alonso Soberanes
