Drr. Seuss: An American Author: Dr. Seuss

Theodor Seuss Geisel, also known as, Dr. Seuss, is an American author and illustrator. He is known mainly because of his children’s books like ‘The Cat in the Hat’ and ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ which were some of his most famous works. Dr. Seuss was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on March 2nd, 1904. Dr. Seuss published his first children’s book, ‘And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street’ in 1937.
Seuss left his home in Massachusetts at the age of 18 to attend Dartmouth College, there he became an editor in chief of its humor magazine ‘Jack-O-Lantern’. He was kicked off the magazine staff but continued to contribute to it using the pseudonym "Seuss." After graduating from Dartmouth, he attended Oxford University planning to eventually become

Army. Some of his most iconic works came a decade or so later, including How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1957), The Cat and the Hat (1957; written as a tour de force using 220 words from list of 500 supplied by his publisher), and Green Eggs and Ham (1960). After the war, Seuss and Helen purchased an old observation tower in La Jolla, California. There he would write at least eight hours a day. He wrote and published several children’s books in the coming years. A major turning point in his career came when, in response to a 1954 LIFE magazine article that criticized children’s reading levels, Houghton Mifflin and Random House asked him to write a children’s primer using 220 vocabulary words. The finished book, The Cat in the Hat was published in 1957. The success of The Cat in the Hat cemented Seuss’s place in Children’s literature. Over the next several years, he wrote many more books, both in his new, simplified vocabulary style and using his older, more elaborate

In the 1920s and 1930s, Seuss worked for a number of years as a freelance magazine cartoonist, selling cartoons and humorous prose pieces to major humor magazines of that time. Seuss married twice, but never had any kids. He did have two step daughters though. When people asked about this he would say “You have ‘em; I’ll entertain ‘em.”
Dr. Seuss wrote two adult books. He wasn't just an author for children's books. One of his adult books even had nude drawings. “The Seven Lady Godivas: The True Facts Concerning History's Barest Family” was a flop when it came out in 1939. The book contained nude drawings. "[Seuss] would like to say he felt it was a flop because he couldn't draw sexy, naked ladies," Nel said. "And he has a point. Imagine naked ladies drawn by Dr. Seuss. Not particularly erotic." His other adult book was the picture book ‘You’re Only Old Once,’ published in 1986 about the indignities of growing