Earlier this year, the NYPL Manuscripts and Archives division acquired the papers (PDF finding aid) of the acclaimed novelist and children’s book author Lore Segal. The collection contains letters and literary manuscripts documenting her life as a Jewish refugee in England during World War II and her subsequent writing and teaching career. Among the papers is a small, but delightful, batch of items from the late Maurice Sendak. Segal and Sendak collaborated on a wonderful collection of Grimm Brothers’ fairy tales entitled The Juniper Tree, and Other Tales from Grimm, published in 1973.
