“Maurice plumbed the darkness in the joy,” Mr. Gerstein’s work with that of another author he knew well, Maurice Sendak, who in “Where the Wild Things Are” and other books explored the melancholy and terror in children’s lives. Michelson Galleries in Northampton, Mass., which represented Mr.
“Mordicai had an unrestrained joy about life,” said his longtime friend Richard Michelson, a poet and author and the owner of the R. Many of his books were laugh-out-loud funny. Despite the weightiness of some of his subjects, he was a mirthful man who reveled in life’s mysteries, took delight in mischief-making and retained his capacity for wonder. He often called the business of being human messy, difficult, even incomprehensible - and yet wonderful. “What are we here for and what are we doing? What are we supposed to do? How am I supposed to be a kid? How do I be a teenager? How do I be me?” “All stories, in one way or another, are about this mystery of being a human being,” Mr.
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