Was maurice sendak gay
If you missed this novel launch today, please undertake check it out!
On-hand was MIT Prof. Marah Gubar (children’s literature scholar extraordinaire), Gregory Maguire (author of Wicked), Brian Selznick (author of The Invention of Hugo Cabret), and of course Golan Moskowitz himself. It’s a pretty big deal to gather such a constellation of luminaries for a book launch, and they did not disappoint.
As readers of the blog already know, Maurice Sendak was – is! – one of the greatest artists for children, and indeed one of the greatest artists, period. Because he came of age at a time when being gay was regarded as shameful (and, indeed, could result in persecution, violence, jail), he kept his sexuality hidden for most of his existence – 50 years of which he shared with his partner, Dr. Eugene Glynn. Moskowitz’s Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Homosexual Jewish Context is the first work to see at how this key aspect of his culture shaped his artistic sensibility. When I say “hidden,” I should say that people who knew him, knew. But his sexuality wasn’t in any press account of his life until the 2000s. There are two passing references (a s
History
Maurice Sendak (1928-2012), regarded as the 20th century’s most important children’s guide illustrator, was born in Brooklyn to Polish-Jewish immigrants. His ill health as a child and the loss of relatives to the Holocaust impacted his work, with his obituary in the New York Times noting that he “wrenched the picture book out of the defended , sanitized world of the nursery and plunged it into the dark, terrifying and hauntingly attractive recesses of the human psyche.” His big break came in the adv 1950s, when esteemed children’s book editor Ursula Nordstrom, of Harper & Row, hired him to illustrate children’s books after seeing the window displays he created for F.A.O. Schwarz. Nordstrom went on to be his most significant collaborator.
By the mid-1950s, Sendak began writing and illustrating his possess books. While living in a duplex apartment (basement and ground floor) at 29 West 9th Street in Greenwich Village, where he moved in 1962, he completed the text and illustrations for his best-selling picture book, Where the Wild Things Are (1963). His family in Brooklyn inspired the story for the book, which earned Sendak the prestigious Caldeco
The Well-Tempered Ear
Classical music news: Maurice Sendak loved classical music, especially Verdi and Mozart, and, yes, he was gay. | May 12, 2012
ALERT: Just a reminder that today 2-6 p.m. is the FREE and PUBLIC “Curtain Down Party” and Open House at the Wisconsin Union Theater. Here are links to news releases and stories about the event. My own thoughts about the WUT’s history and future were in yesterday’s posting:
http://www.news.wisc.edu/20660
http://www.thedailypage.com/theguide/details.php?event=283665
By Jacob Stockinger
Ever since he died this week at 83 of complications from a stroke, the famed children’s book writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak (below) has been featured in many tributes in the elderly and new media — and rightfully so.
I love listening to his voice, his articulate conversation and quick thinking. Just heed to the hour that Terry Gross and “Fresh Air” on NPR devoted to old interviews he did.
http://www.npr.org/2012/05/08/152248901/fresh-air-remembers-author-maurice-sendak
And The Huffington Publish compiled some of Sendak’s most memorable and self-effacing quotes:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05
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, Recent York, NY 10011
Rhode Island School of Layout, 2 College St, Providence, RI 02903, Stati Uniti
Maurice Bernard Sendak (June 10, 1928 – May 8, 2012) was an American illustrator and journalist 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 Modern York Times that he was same-sex attracted and had lived with his boyfriend, 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 relation