Advertisement'Fresh Air' Remembers Author Maurice Sendak45:35Download AudioResumeMay 08, 2012facebookEmailIn this Sept. 25, 1985 file photo, author Maurice Sendak poses with one of the characters from his book Where the Wild Things Are, designed for the operatic adaptation of his book in St. Paul, Minn. Sendak died, Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at Danbury Hospital in Danbury, Conn. He was 83. (AP)