Maurice Sendak

Maurice Sendak, Bernard (born June 10, 1928) is an American author and illustrator of children's literature. He is best known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, published in 1963.
Sendak was born in Brooklyn, New York to Polish Jewish immigrant parents of Sarah (nee Schindler) and Philip Sendak, a seamstress.  He decided to become an illustrator, after seeing the Disney movie Fantasia at the age of twelve, but his love of books came at an early age when he developed problems health and was bedridden. One of his first professional. commissions was to create windows for the FAO Schwarz toy store. His illustrations were first published in 1947 in a book titled Atomics for the millions of Maxwell Eidinoff Leigh. He spent much of 1950 working as an artist of children's books, before beginning to write his own stories