Partner Eugene Glynn
Queer Places:
The Art Students League of New York, 215 W 57th St, New York, NY 10019, Stati Uniti
29 W 9th St, New York, NY 10011
Rhode Island School of Design, 2 College St, Providence, RI 02903, Stati Uniti
Maurice Bernard Sendak (June 10, 1928 – May 8, 2012) was an American
illustrator and writer of children's books. He became widely known for his
book Where the Wild Things Are, first published in 1963.[2]
Born to Jewish-Polish parents, his childhood was affected by the death of many
of his family members during the Holocaust. Sendak also wrote works such as
In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There, and illustrated many
works by other authors including the Little Bear books by Else
Holmelund Minarik.
Sendak mentioned in a September 2008 article in The New York Times
that he was gay and had lived with his partner, psychoanalyst
Eugene Glynn (February 25, 1926 - May 15,
2007), for 50 years before Glynn's death in May 2007. Revealing that he never
told his parents, he said, "All I wanted was to be straight so my parents
could be happy. They never, never, never knew."[17]
Sendak's relationship with Glynn had been mentioned by other writers before
(e.g., Tony Kushner in 2003)[18]
and Glynn's 2007 death notice had identified Sendak as his "partner of fifty
years".[1]
After his partner's death, Sendak donated $1 million to the Jewish Board of
Family and Children's Services in memory of Glynn who had treated young people
there. The gift will name a clinic for Glynn.[19]
Sendak was an atheist. In a 2011 interview, he stated that he did not
believe in God and explained that he felt that religion, and belief in God,
"must have made life much easier [for some religious friends of his]. It's
harder for us non-believers."[20]
Sendak died on May 8, 2012, at age 83, in Danbury, Connecticut, at Danbury
Hospital, from complications of a stroke, less than a month before his 84th
birthday. His remains were cremated.[24][25]
MAURICE SENDAK (1928-2012)
Fashion study for Fire Island Times.
Figure of a bare-chested man in a skirt, smoking a cigarette for a Fire Island Times article on local fashion by Margot Goodman, 1965. Pen and ink on paper. 275x204 mm; 10 3/4x8 inches. Signed "M. Sendak" in lower left. Provenance: the artist; Fire Island News office; Nat Hentoff and Margaret Goodman; private collection, New York City. 1965.
Sendak and his partner, Eugene Glynn, had a house on Fire Island for several years. It was there that he wrote Where the Wild Things Are in 1963. Among their close friends were Nat Hentoff, writer for the Village Voice and The New Yorker and his wife, the journalist Margaret Goodman. Sendak wrote and illustrated the article at Goodman's request and gifted the drawings to them.
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