Brief Biography of Renown Children´s Author: Dr. Seuss

Theodor Seuss Geisel was born on March 2, 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts. To Theodor Robert Geisel and Henrietta Seuss Geisel. His father was a successful brewmaster. All of his grandparents were German immigrants. His father managed the family brewery and later was a supervisor of Springfield’s public park system. The family brewery was closed because of the Prohibition his father had to get a different job he got the park system job from the mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts John A. Denison.

Then Geisel left home at age 18 to attend Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. When he was there he was editor in chief for the college’s humor magazine named Jack-O-Lantern. One night when he was in his dorm he and some of his friends were caught drinking in their dorm room in violation of the Prohibition law. For that he was kicked off the magazine staff but he continued to write for it under the name “Seuss”.

When he graduated from Dartmouth College in 1925 after that he attended Lincoln College at Oxford.

When he was at oxford he met Helen Palmer then she became his wife in 1927. She persuaded him to give up on becoming an English teacher and to focus more on drawing more as a career. He left Oxford without a degree returned to the United States in February 1927. He immediately started publishing and working on books and drawings. Seuss was a perfectionist when he was writing a book he would throw away 95% of his work. His first book that he had published was called “And to Think I Saw It On Mulberry Street”. It was his first childrens book he wrote and illustrated it was published in 1937 after it being rejected 27 times it was finally published by the Vanguard Press. With that publication he ...

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...hed in 1957 and i one critic said it was a “tour de force”. The cat in the hat became an animated film in 1971.

He would make training films for people from standard oil and propaganda posters during the war because he was too old for the draft. He also wrote a lot of books he has written and published over 60 books. Most of those books were translated in to many different languages and the cat in the hat was translated in to over 15 different languages most of his books that he wrote got rejected many times by many publishers and that is why he started his own publishing company to publish his own books and to publish other childrens v books to help people publish their books.
He became famous because of the standard oil advertisements and because of when he was in the war they knew he did cartooning and they had him do some propaganda for the war