For those of you who love Maurice Sendak's work

An excellent look into the writer/illustrator's life and personality can be found in:

Concerns Beyond Just Where the Wild Things Are

Things I didn't know about Mr Sendak:

1. The son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, he lost many relatives in the Holocaust.
   
2. Gay, his partner of 50 years died last year. He never told his parents he was gay.
   
3. He recently turned 80, despite having a heart attack at 39 and a triple by-pass recently.