At 52, Maurice Sendak has become America's master illustrator. Almost all of the 78 books he has written or decorated are still in print. Some, like A Hole Is to Dig, Where the Wild Things Are, Higglety Pigglety Pop! Or There Must Be More to Life, and The Nutshell Library, are contemporary classics; all are collector's items.
Most of his drawings are in the possession of the Rosenbach Foundation in Philadelphia; the few that come up for sale fetch prices of up to $12,000 each. For a man who describes himself as "a solitary and...
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