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Maurice Sendak, ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ author, dies at 83

Maurice Sendak, whose “Where the Wild Things Are” upset parents and psychologists in 1963 and became an international best-seller that helped change the placid world of children’s books, has died. He was 83.

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