Illustrator Christoph Niemann was so moved by Maurice Sendak's 2001 "Fresh Air" interview that he was inspired to illustrate the first five minutes of it.

Maurice Sendak, the curmudgeonly children's book author famous for writing "Where the Wild Things Are," has died from complications of a stroke.

To say that the first part of Stephen Colbert's interview with "Where the Wild Things Are" author Maurice Sendak was a rollicking riot of an interview would be a gross understatement.

If you've watched Stephen Colbert's show with any regularity over the past few years, you know that the best interviews he ever does are with people who don't seem to be in on the joke.