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Jackson State University

Mississippi State University

Mississippi University for Women

Mississippi Valley State University

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Philip Nel remembers Maurice Sendak

UPM author Phil Nel has a thoughtful and touching tribute to Maurice Sendak on his blog The Most Wild Thing of All: Maurice Sendak, 1928-2012. Nel is is the author of the forthcoming Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children’s Literature. Johnson and Krauss influenced and intersected with Sendak throughout their careers

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