# Author of the best childrens book passes away.
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**Created:** [May 8, 2012, 8:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/author-of-the-best-childrens-book-passes-away/222833 "2012-05-08T08:27:06Z")
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### Author:  [@yamba6](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/yamba6)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2012, 8:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/author-of-the-best-childrens-book-passes-away/222833/1 "2012-05-08T08:27:06Z")
[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/books/maurice-sendak-childrens-author-dies-at-83.html](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/books/maurice-sendak-childrens-author-dies-at-83.html)
> [Maurice Sendak](http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/maurice_sendak/index.html?inline=nyt-per), widely considered the most important children’s book artist of the 20th century, who wrenched the picture book out of the safe, sanitized world of the nursery and plunged it into the dark, terrifying and hauntingly beautiful recesses of the human psyche, died on Tuesday in Danbury, Conn. He was 83and lived in Ridgefield, Conn.
RIP!! Grew up with his childrens books.
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### Author:  [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2012, 8:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/author-of-the-best-childrens-book-passes-away/222833/2 "2012-05-08T08:30:10Z")
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Anyone see his interview with Stephen Colbert? hilarious.