Maurice Sendak, Author of Splendid Nightmares, Dies at 83 (Published 2012)Maurice Sendak at his Ridgefield, Conn., home with his German Shepherd, Herman, in 2006.Credit...Joyce Dopkeen/The New York Times Maurice Sendak, widely considered the most important children’s book artist of the 20th century, who wrenched the picture book out of the safe, sanitized world of the nursery and plunged it into the dark, terrifying and hauntingly beautiful recesses of the human psyche,
