Dr. Seuss Research Paper

Dr. Seuss

Theodor Seuss Geisel was born on March 2, 1904, in Springfield, Massachusetts. He published his first children's book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, under the name of Dr. Seuss in 1937. The “Dr.” in “Dr. Seuss” was in homage to his father’s hope that he would get his PHD, but it never happened because he decided to drop it in college. Seuss was his middle name so that’s how he came up with the pen name “Dr. Seuss”. He is famous for his fun, weird, but interesting children books and he will never be forgotten for as long as the world goes on.

Seuss was born to Theodor Robert Geisel, a successful brewmaster, and Henrietta Seuss Geisel. When he was 18 years old he left home to attend college. Dartmouth College is where he became the editor in chief of its humor magazine, Jack-O-Lantern. Geisel and his friends were caught drinking in his dorm one night and he was kicked off the magazine staff , but continued to contribute to it using the pseudonym "Seuss." When he graduated from Dartmouth College he then attended Oxford University in England. He had plans to eventually become a professor. While he was at Oxford he met his future wife, Helen Palmer, whom he married in 1927. In the same year he dropped out of college and the two moved

Seuss moved back to America he decided to pursue in cartooning full-time. His articles and illustrations were published in a lot of different magazines including LIFE and Vanity Fair. A cartoon that he published in the July 1927 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, his first using the pen name "Seuss," landed him a staff position at the New York weekly Judge. He then started working for Standard Oil in the advertising department, where he spent 15 years. He made an ad for Flit, which was a common insecticide, became nationally famous. Viesel Press offered him a contract to illustrate a children's collection called Boners. The book didn’t sell well, but it gave him an opening into children’s