The proceeds of the sale will go to the Maurice Sendak Foundation, which gives grants for artistic endeavors.
In 2008, Maurice Sendak revealed that he was gay in an article in The New York Times.
Sendak died at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut from complications from a recent stroke.
Another ace at storytelling and illustration, Maurice Sendak, turns 82 in June.
The little volume of definitions features a softer, simpler Sendak.
"Maurice Sendak looks kinda like a Wild Thing, " Ludden notes.
As you may have guessed, Sendak found many things irritable.
The Harry Potter books (and Jim Dale's terrific readings for the audios ), Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, and even a well worn copy of a dusty old R.
First up was "Lunch" by Denise Fleming, about a mouse that eats vegetables and fruit, followed by "Where the Wild Things Are, " the children's classic (beloved by the Obamas) by Maurice Sendak.
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Mr. Sendak, who published more than 100 children's books and died in May, bought the apartment in the late 1970s or early 1980s, says listing agent Scott Harris of Brown Harris Stevens.
Krauss, best known for The Carrot Seed and husband Crockett Johnson, creator of Harold and the Purple Crayon, met Sendak at 22, after he had suffered a series of rejection from publishers.
Considered controversial for its images when it was first published - which some claimed to have scared children - the book went on to earn Sendak a prestigious Caldecott Medal for best children's book in 1964.
This is Maurice Sendak at 76, as Jennifer Ludden found after a trip into the New England woods to interview the famed author and illustrator of books for young readers, best known for 1964's Where the Wild Things Are.
Born in 1928 and raised in Brooklyn by Jewish-Polish immigrant parents, Sendak said his own life had been clouded by the Holocaust and that the events of World War II were the root of his raw and honest artistic style.
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