Maurice Sendak: 1928-2012

Children's book author Maurice Sendak is photographed doing an interview at his home in Ridgefield, Conn., on Sept. 6, 2011. Sendak, author of the popular children's book "Where the Wild Things Are," died, Tuesday, May 8, 2012, at Danbury Hospital in Danbury, Conn. He was 83.

Credit: AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, file