Wild Visionary reconsiders Maurice Sendak's life and work in the
context of his experience as a Jewish gay man. Maurice (Moishe)
Bernard Sendak (1928-2012) was a fierce, romantic, and shockingly
funny truth seeker who intervened in modern literature and culture.
Raising the stakes of children's books, Sendak painted childhood
with the dark realism and wild imagination of his own sensitive
"inner child," drawing on the queer and Yiddish sensibilities that
shaped his singular voice. Interweaving literary biography and
cultural history, Golan Y. Moskowitz follows Sendak from his
parents' Brooklyn home to spaces of creative growth and artistic
vision-from neighborhood movie palaces to Hell's Kitchen, Greenwich
Village, Fire Island, and the Connecticut country home he shared
with Eugene Glynn, his partner of more than fifty years. Further,
he analyzes Sendak's investment in the figure of the endangered
child in symbolic relation to collective touchstones that impacted
the artist's perspective-the Great Depression, the Holocaust, and
the AIDS crisis. Through a deep exploration of Sendak's picture
books, interviews, and previously unstudied personal
correspondence, Wild Visionary offers a sensitive portrait of the
most beloved and enchanting picture-book artist of our time.
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