The cover of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, which has sold over 17m copies since it was published in 1963 Photograph: HarperCollins/AP

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In an interview with the Guardian last year, Sendak said that the term “children’s illustrator” annoyed him, since it seems to belittle his talent. “I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can’t do that. I’m in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person,” he said.

Maurice Sendak, American born author of Where the Wild Things Are, has died at the age of 83.

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theatlantic:

“This is how Maurice Sendak sometimes sent his letters. Just imagine getting one.” (via Letters Of Note)

Beautiful