Beloved children’s book author Maurice Sendak passed away this morning at the age of 83.

The New York Times obituary is about as thorough as you can get.

I’ve decided to join the ranks of folks embedding Sendak’s interview on the Colbert Report, featured below. It’s a great interview, but I fear that it encouraged Colbert to go forward with his plans to publish a children’s book of his own, I Am a Pole.