Dr Seuss
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Dr Seuss was born Theodor Seuss “Ted” Geisel on March 2nd 1904 to parents Henrietta (Nee Seuss) and Theodor Robert Geisel in Springfield Massachusetts. Whilst growing up in WW1 Geisel and his sister Marnie experienced Anti-German prejudice due to their German decent.
Geisel spent part of his studies at Dartmouth where he'd spent part of his time writing for the schools newspaper during that time Geisel was caught drinking gin with other students and banned from extra curricular activities due to the prohibition laws. Geisel continued writing but signed his name Seuss instead. Geisel graduated in 1925 and went onto Lincoln College, Oxford to earn a D. Phil (Doctor of Philosophy) in English Literature. Here he met his first Wife Helen Palmer who encouraged him to pursue drawing as a career instead of being a teacher.
Geisel left Oxford without his degree and returned to the US in 1927, He was prompt using his time in Europe to create a series of Cartoons called Eminent Europeans and pitched it to Life Magazine who passed it on, Geisel started submitting writings and drawings to several publishers and agencies and by July 16th 1927 his first cartoon was published in an issue of The Saturday Evening Post. This single sale resulting in Geisel being paid $25 was enough to convince him to move across the US to NYC and a year later Geisel was working for the magazine Judge which allowed Geisel to marry Helen by November 29th 1927.
By 1936 Geisel and hi wife had travelled the world visiting at least 30 countries in that time, on a voyage home Geisel went onto write his first book “And to think that I saw it on Mulberry street”. The book was rejected buy numerous publishers before being picked up by Vanguard press, according to Geisel this only happened due to the meeting of an old Dartmouth classmate when he was on his way to burn the manuscript. This book led the way to four more books Geisel would write before the US entered WW2. Geisel spent most of WW2 creating political cartoons which were later put together in the book “Dr. Seuss goes to war”. Geisel's cartoons depicted many things including the denouncement of Hitler and Mussolini, being critical of Non-Interventionists like Charles Lindbergh, jumping between supporting and criticising President Roosevelt and both showcasing and abhorring the racisms brought on by war. By 1942 Geisel worked on posters for the treasury department and the war production Board before joining the army as a captain in 1943.
After the war Geisel went back to work writing books publishing most of them through Random House (US) and William Collins& Sons (Later HarperCollins, International). In 1954 Geisel went onto write The Cat In The Hat in response to a challenge from education division director William Ellsworth Spaulding in response to the Life Magazine published report on Children Illiteracy. Two years later Geisel was given an honorary doctorate legitimising the Dr in his pen-name. On October 23rd 1967, Geisel's wife Helen died after a long struggle of illness due to suicide and a year later went onto marry Audrey Dimond on June 21st 1968.
Geisel was awarded an honorary LHD (Doctor of Humane Letters) from Whittier College and the Laura Ingalls Wilder medal from the professional children's librarians in 1980. by 1984 Geisel won a Special Pulitzer prize due to his contribution to near half century to education and enjoyment of Americas children. Geisel died of cancer on September 24th 1991 at his home in California at the age of 87. he left behind his second wife Audrey who ran his estate until she died in 2018 at the age of 97.
Geisel received many honours post-humorously including the Dr Seuss national memorial sculpture garden in 2002, an induction into the California Hall of Fame in 2008. Geisel also earned two academy awards, two Emmy awards a Peabody award and the ink pot award as well. Geisel also has a star on the Hollywood walk of fame at the 6500 block of Hollywood Boulevard under his pen-name of Dr Seuss.
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