On December 1, 1964, Ursula Nordstrom wrote a letter to Nat Hentoff, who was on assignment for the New Yorker. (Hentoff's piece on Maurice Sendak ran January 22, 1966-well over a year later.) Nordstrom-who had never been a teacher, a librarian or a college graduate-published Sendak, Gorey, Silverstein, White, Wilder and Brown from 1940 to 1979, at which time she and her partner Mary moved up to the country.