She later recalled that 'Ted's notebooks were always filled with these fabulous animals. At Oxford, he met his future wife Helen Palmer, who encouraged him to give up becoming an English teacher in favor of pursuing drawing as a career. Upon graduating from Dartmouth, he entered Lincoln College, Oxford, intending to earn a Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.) in English literature. Benfield Pressey, whom he described as his 'big inspiration for writing' at Dartmouth. He was encouraged in his writing by professor of rhetoric W. To continue working on the magazine without the administration's knowledge, Geisel began signing his work with the pen name 'Seuss'.

As a result of this infraction, Dean Craven Laycock insisted that Geisel resign from all extracurricular activities, including the Jack-O-Lantern. At the time, the possession and consumption of alcohol was illegal under Prohibition laws, which remained in place between 19. While at Dartmouth, he was caught drinking gin with nine friends in his room. At Dartmouth, he joined the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and the humor magazine Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern, eventually rising to the rank of editor-in-chief. Geisel attended Dartmouth College, graduating in 1925. Geisel was raised as a Missouri Synod Lutheran and remained in the denomination his entire life.

The family was of German descent, and Geisel and his sister Marnie experienced anti-German prejudice from other children following the outbreak of World War I in 1914. Mulberry Street in Springfield, made famous in his first children's book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, is near his boyhood home on Fairfield Street. Denison after the brewery closed because of Prohibition. His father managed the family brewery and was later appointed to supervise Springfield's public park system by Mayor John A. Geisel was born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts, the son of Henrietta ( née Seuss) and Theodor Robert Geisel. His birthday, March 2, has been adopted as the annual date for National Read Across America Day, an initiative focused on reading created by the National Education Association. In 1984, he won a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation. He received two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Children's Special for Halloween Is Grinch Night (1978) and Outstanding Animated Program for The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat (1982). He published over 60 books during his career, which have spawned numerous adaptations, including eleven television specials, five feature films, a Broadway musical, and four television series. During World War II, he took a brief hiatus from children's literature to illustrate political cartoons, and he worked in the animation and film department of the United States Army.Īfter the war, Geisel returned to writing children's books, writing acclaimed works such as If I Ran the Zoo (1950), Horton Hears a Who! (1955), The Cat in the Hat (1957), How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957), Green Eggs and Ham (1960), One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish (1960), The Sneetches and Other Stories (1961), The Lorax (1971), The Butter Battle Book (1984), and Oh, the Places You'll Go! (1990). He published his first children's book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street in 1937. He also worked as an illustrator for advertising campaigns, including for FLIT and Standard Oil, and as a political cartoonist for the New York newspaper PM. He left Oxford in 1927 to begin his career as an illustrator and cartoonist for Vanity Fair, Life, and various other publications. Seuss' as an undergraduate at Dartmouth College and as a graduate student at Lincoln College, Oxford.

His work includes many of the most popular children's books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and being translated into more than 20 languages by the time of his death. He is known for his work writing and illustrating more than 60 books under the pen name Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel ( / s uː s ˈ ɡ aɪ z əl, z ɔɪ s -/ ⓘ sooss GHY-zəl, zoyss -⁠ Ma– September 24, 1991) was an American children's author and cartoonist.

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