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Sendak, Jack

LC control no.n 50009782
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingSendak, Jack
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Associated countryUnited States
LocatedClarksburg (N.J.)
Birth date1923-07-20
Death date1995-02-03
Place of birthBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Place of deathFreehold (N.J.)
Field of activityChildren's literature
Profession or occupationAuthors
Found inHis The happy rain, 1956.
Wikipedia, viewed January 3, 2019: Jack Sendak (Jack Sendak (July 20, 1923 -- February 3, 1995) was a children's literature author. He was the brother of Maurice Sendak and the son of Philip Sendak ... Two of his books, Circus Girl (1957) and The Happy Rain (1956), were illustrated by Maurice. His 1971 book The Magic Tears won the Children's Book Showcase award ...)
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Sendak>
The New York Times (Website) viewed January 3, 2019: "Jack Sendak, 71, a Writer Of Surrealist Books for Children," by Wolfgang Saxon Feb. 4, 1995 (Jack Sendak, an author of children's books noted for their magical and even surreal qualities, died yesterday at Centra Medical Center in Freehold, N.J. He was 71 and lived in Clarksburg, N.J. ... Jack Sendak was born in Brooklyn ... He said "The Happy Rain" was the first manuscript he ever submitted to a publisher. In addition to "Circus Girl," titles that followed included "The Second Witch," illustrated by Uri Shulevitz (1965), "The King of the Hermits and Other Stories" with Margot Zemach (1966) and "Martze" 1968) and "The Magic Tears" (1971) with Mitchell Miller ...)
   <https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/04/obituaries/jack-sendak-71-a-writer-of-surrealist-books-for-children.html?pagewanted=1>
Associated languageeng