Philip Sendak

{{short description|American writer}}

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Philip Sendak (September 15, 1894 – June 14, 1970) was a writer of children's literature. He is the father of the writer and illustrator, Maurice Sendak, and the children's writer, Jack Sendak.

He emigrated from Poland to the United States in 1913.{{cite book|author=Harold Pollins|title=Hopeful Travellers: Jewish Migrants and Settlers in Nineteenth Century Britain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mOI-AQAAIAAJ|year=1989|publisher=London Museum of Jewish Life|isbn=978-1-871447-02-6|page=18}}

Sendak died at the age of 75.