Maurice Sendak
Biography:
Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) received the 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are; the 1970 Hans Christian Anderson Award for Illustration; the 1983 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, given by the American Library Association in recognition of his entire body of work; and a 1996 National Medal of Arts in recognition of his contribution to the arts in America. In 2003, he received the first Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, an international prize for children’s literature established by the Swedish government.