Maurice Sendak's Last Book, Six Years After His Death
'Presto and Zesto in Limboland' is a collaboration between the children's author and longtime friend and fellow writer Arthur Yorinks.
Arthur Yorinks first met Maurice Sendak in 1970, when Yorinks was 17 and Sendak was 42. “I read an article about him in The New York Times and thought, If I meet this guy, it will help me move out of my parents’ house,” says Yorinks. “It made no sense, but I was determined.”
By this point, Sendak was already a celebrated children's author, thanks to 1963's (which became a 2009 Oscar-nominated film byYorinks aspired to write short fiction, though he would later go on to write the 1986 Caldecott Medal-winning children's book,
