早年生活

莫里斯·桑达克生于美国纽约布鲁克林，双亲皆为波兰犹太籍移民，而父亲是一名裁缝。 桑达克形容自己的童年为“可怕的光景”，因为他的亲戚死于犹太人大当中，让年纪小小的他一早就已经体会到死亡。 早年他因健康问题长期卧床，却培养了喜爱阅读的习惯。 十二岁那年他看过了华特·迪士尼的幻想曲后，就志愿要成为一位插图家。而他第一份工作，就是为玩具店F.A.O. Schwarz设计橱窗。 一九四七年，桑达克的插画首次出版，出现在一本名为《Atomics for the Millions》的教科书，作者是Dr. Maxwell Leigh Eidinoff。一九五○年代，在桑达克开始写自己的故事之前，他多数在为其他作者的童书画插画。

个人生活

桑达克曾在2008年9月于《》上提及自己同性恋的身份，并跟他的伴侣心理分析家Eugene Glynn博士同居了五十年。他从未向自己父母出柜，并说：“我只希望自己是异性恋的，那我的父母就高兴了；他们永远、永远、永远不知道。”

逝世

桑达克在2012年5月8日的早上因为脑中风的并发症于美国康涅狄格州丹伯里离世，终年83岁。

著作

桑达克在自写自画《野兽国》之后获得国际声誉。初出版时，这部描绘尖牙怪兽的作品使某些家长感到忧心，因为里面的角色长相显得相当荒诞。在《野兽国》之前，桑达克最知名的作品是为Else Holmelund Minarik的《小熊》系列著作所画的插画。

当桑达克在Harper & Row公司编辑的桌上看到Isaac Bashevis Singer第一篇儿童故事《Zlateh the Goat》的稿件时，他主动表示要为这部作品画插画。这本书在一九六六年首次出版，获得纽伯瑞奖。桑达克对于这次的合作感到愉快，有满腔热忱。他曾经以揶揄的口气说他和Singer合作，“终于”让他的父母对他们最小的孩子留下深刻印象。

桑达克的《厨房之夜狂想曲In the Night Kitchen》（格林出版）于一九七○出版，这部作品经常涉及审查议题，因为书中的小男孩在画面中都是裸身走动着。这本书在美国好几个州都遭到非议，包括伊利诺伊、新泽西、明尼苏达及德州。《厨房之夜狂想曲》经常出现在美国图书馆协会的“常禁书单”。在一九九○～一九九九年间一百本最常遭非议的书单当中名列第二十一。

一九八一年出版的《在那遥远的地方Outside Over There》（麦田出版），故事是关于一个叫做Ida的女孩，探讨她对于兄弟姐妹的嫉妒情结及其责任感。她的父亲离家，Ida被留下来看顾妹妹，这使她相当失望。她妹妹遭小妖精（goblins）绑架，Ida必须展开一段奇幻旅程去解救妹妹。一开始她并不真的渴望找到妹妹，在寻找的过程中，她受神奇的事物吸引，几乎与妹妹擦身而过。最后，她救出妹妹，毁灭小妖精，返家并许诺在父亲回家之前会担起照顾妹妹的责任。

文集

Kenny"s Window (1956)

Very Far Away (1957)

The Sign on Rosie"s Door (1960)

The Nutshell Library (1962)

Where the Wild Things Are (1963)

Let"s Be Enemies (written by Janice May Udry) (1965)

Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life (1967) ISBN 0-06-028479-X

In the Night Kitchen (1970)

Ten Little Rabbits: A Counting Book with Mino the Magician (1970)

Some Swell Pup or Are You Sure You Want a Dog? (written by Maurice Sendak & Matthew Margolis, and illustrated by Maurice Sendak) (1976)

Seven Little Monsters (1977)

Fantasy Sketches (1981)

Outside Over There (1981)

Caldecott and Co: Notes on Books and Pictures (an anthology of essays on children"s literature) (1988)

We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy (1993)

Maurice Sendak"s Christmas Mystery (1995) (a box containing a book and a jigsaw puzzle)

Mommy? (Sendak"s first pop-up book) (2006) ISBN 0-439-88050-5

Bumble-Ardy (2011) ISBN 0-06-205198-9, ISBN 978-0-06-205198-1

插画

Atomics for the Millions (by Dr. Maxwell Leigh Eidinoff) (1947)

The Wonderful Farm (by Marcel Aymé) (1951)

Good Shabbos Everybody (by Robert Garvey) (1951)

A Hole is to Dig (by Ruth Krauss) (1952)

A Very Special House (by Ruth Krauss) (1953)

Hurry Home Candy (by Meindert DeJong) (1953)

The Giant Story (by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers) (1953)

The Tin Fiddle (by Edward Tripp) (1954)

The Wheel on the School (by Meindert DeJong) (1954)

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle"s Farm (by Betty MacDonald) (1954)

Happy Hanukah Everybody (by Hyman Chanover & Alice Chanover) (1955)

Little Cow & the Turtle (by Meindert DeJong) (1955)

Singing Family of the Cumberlands (by Jean Ritchie) (Oxford University Press, 1955)

What Can You Do with a Shoe? (by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers) (1955, re-colored 1997)

Seven Little Stories on Big Subjects (by Gladys Baker Bond) (1955)

I Want to Paint My Bathroom Blue (by Ruth Krauss) (1956)

The Birthday Party (by Ruth Krauss) (1957)

Little Bear , by Else Holmelund Minarik and illustrated by Sendak (there was also a TV series based on this series of books)

Along Came a Dog (by Meindert DeJong) (1958)

No Fighting, No Biting! (by Else Holmelund Minarik) (1958)

What Do You Say, Dear? (by Sesyle Joslin) (1958)

Seven Tales by H. C. Andersen (translated by Eva Le Gallienne) (1959)

The Moon Jumpers (by Janice May Udry)(1959)

Open House for Butterflies (by Ruth Krauss) (1960)

Best in Children"s Books: Volume 31 (various authors and illustrators: featuring, Windy Wash Day and Other Poems by Dorothy Aldis, illustrations by Sendak) (1960)

Best in Children"s Books: Volume 41 (various authors and illustrators: featuring, What the Good-Man Does Is Always Right by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrations by Sendak (1961)

Let"s Be Enemies (by Janice Udry) (1961)

What Do You Do, Dear? (by Sesyle Joslin) (1961)

The Big Green Book (by Robert Graves) (1962)

Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present (by Charlotte Zolotow) (1962)

The Singing Hill (by Meindert DeJong) (1962) (Harper Row)

Dwarf Long-Nose (by Wilhelm Hauff, translated by Doris Orgel) (1963)

The Griffin and the Minor Canon (by Frank R. Stockton) (1963)

How Little Lori Visited Times Square (by Amos Vogel) (1963)

She Loves Me...She Loves Me Not... (by Robert Keeshan AKA Captain Kangaroo) (1963)

McCall"s: August 1964; VOL XCI, No 11 (featuring The Young Crane by Andrejs Upits, Illustrated by Sendak)

The Bee-Man of Orn (by Frank R. Stockton) (1964)

The Animal Family (by Randall Jarrell) (1965)

Hector Protector and As I Went Over the Water: Two Nursery Rhymes (traditional nursery rhymes) (1965)

Lullabyes and Night Songs (by Alec Wilder, edited by William Engvick) (1965)

Zlateh The Goat (by Isaac Bashevis Singer) (1966)

The Bat-Poet (by Randall Jarrell) (1964)

The House of Sixty Fathers (by Meindert De Jong) (1966)

The Saturday Evening Post: May 4, 1968; 24t year, Issue no. 9 (features Yash The Chimney Sweep by Isaac Bashevis Singer)

I"ll Be You and You Be Me (by Ruth Krauss) (1973)

The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm: Volumes 1 & 2 (translated by Lore Segal with four tales translated by Randall Jarrell) (1973 both volumes)

King Grisly-Beard (by Brothers Grimm) (1973)

Pleasant Fieldmouse (by Jan Wahl) (1975)

Charlotte and the White Horse (by Ruth Krauss) (1955)

Fly by Night (by Randall Jarrell) (1976)

The Light Princess (by George MacDonald) (1977)

Shadrach (by Meindert Dejong) (1977)

The Big Green Book (by Robert Graves) (1978)

Nutcracker (by E.T.A. Hoffmann) (1984)

The Love for Three Oranges (The Glyndebourne Version, by Frank Corsaro based on L"Amour des Trois Oranges (by Serge Prokofiev) (1984)

Circus Girl (by Jack Sendak) (1985)

In Grandpa"s House (by Philip Sendak) (1985)

The Cunning Little Vixen (by Rudolf Tesnohlidek) (1985)

Dear Mili (written by Wilhelm Grimm) (1988)

Sing a Song of Popcorn (by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers with various illustrators including Sendak) (1988)

The Big Book for Peace (various authors and illustrators, cover also by Sendak) (1990)

I Saw Esau (edited by Iona Opie and Peter Opie) (1992)

The Golden Key (by George MacDonald) (1992) ISBN 0-374-42590-6

We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy: Two Nursery Rhymes with Pictures (traditional nursery rhymes) (Harper Collins) (1993)

Pierre: or, The Ambiguities: The Kraken Edition (by Herman Melville) (1995) ISBN 978-0-06-118009-5

The Miami Giant (by Arthur Yorinks) (1995)

Frank and Joey Go to Work (by Arthur Yorinks), also has additional illustrations by Ky Chung (1996)

Penthesilea (by Heinrich von Kleist, translated and introduced by Joel Agee) (1998) ISBN 0-06-095632-1

Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom (by Ursula Nordstrom, edited by Leonard S. Marcus) ISBN 0-06-023625-6

Swine Lake (by James Marshall) (1999)

Brundibár (by Tony Kushner) (2003)

Sarah"s Room (by Doris Orgel) (2003)

The Happy Rain (by Jack Sendak) (2004)

Bears! (by Ruth Krauss) (2005)

作品集

The Art of Maurice Sendak (by Selma G. Lanes) (1980) ISBN 0-8109-1600-2

The Art of Maurice Sendak: From 1980 to the Present (by Tony Kushner) (2003) ISBN 0-8109-4448-0

Making Mischief: A Maurice Sendak Appreciation (by Gregory Maguire) (2009) ISBN 0-06-168916-5

电影

1973: Where the Wild Things Are (story)

2009: Where The Wild Things Are (story)

2009: Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak , documentary filmed by Lance Bangs and Where the Wild Things Are director Spike Jonze. Released in the US on DVD by Oscilloscope Laboratories.

2010: Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life (story), an animated/live action short adapted and directed by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski (Clyde Henry Productions), produced by Spike Jonze, Vincent Landay and Marcy Page (National Film Board of Canada)

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