“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
— Maurice Sendak
(June 10, 1928-2012)
Sign: Gemini
Gay illustrator and author of children’s books. He is most famous for his book Where the Wild Things Are (1963), the story of a young boy named Max who escapes his dreary household, and becomes king of the “Wild Things.”
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