About My Author - DR.SEUSS!!

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:27:46 +0100

Everyone knows Dr.Suess as a fun loving writer for children, but he does have a real name. His name is Theodor ("Ted") Seuss Geisel, and he wasn't a real doctor. He was born on March 2, 1904, in Springfield, Massachusetts. His father, Theodor Robert, and grandfather were brewmasters and had a great financial success for many years. Coupling the continual threats of Prohibition and World War I, the German-immigrant Geisels were targets for many slurs, particularly with regard to their heritage and livelihoods. For this reason they were active participants in the pro-America campaign of World War I. Thus, Ted and his sister Marnie overcame such ridicule and became popular teenagers involved in many derent activities. Who we know as Dr. Suess had a fairly happy childhood. he had strict parents but in the end they were vey loving. His mother, Henrietta Seuss Geisel, had worked in her father's bakery before marrying Ted's father, often memorizing the names of the pies that were on special each day and ‘chanting' them to her customers. If Ted had difficulty getting to sleep, she would often recall her ‘pie-selling chants'. As an adult, Ted credited his mother "for the rhythms in which I write and the urgency with which I do it."

Ted attended "Dartmouth" and worked very hard there,officially becoming editor in chief of "Jack-O-Lantern" which was Dartmouth's humor magazine. Being edior didn't last long, and Suess graduated from "Dartmouth" and with much scraping of pennies Ted's father sent himto LOxford university, where he intenededto be a professor. A youngwoman named Helen Palmer noticed Ted doodling one day and told him he shouldnt be a professorbut an artist. Giesel took her advice in becoming an artist and later on took her hand in marriage.

    Ted moved back to the U.S, and began to persue a career of a cartoonist. The "Saturday Evening Post and Publications" published some of his first pieces, but at that time Ted was eniterly devoted to creating advertising campaigns for Standard Oil, which he did for more than 15 years.

    Finally after much hard work, Seuss' writing career hit a high when his first book in which he both wrote and illistrated was published. " And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street". - This book was rejected 27 times before being published! Obviously he never gave up!!

    After that came "The Cat in The Hat" - "perhaps the defining book of Ted's career, developed as part of a unique joint venture between Houghton Mifflin (Vanguard Press) and Random House." "With the release of The Cat in the Hat, Ted became the definitive children's book author and illustrator."

    After Ted's first wife died in 1967, Ted married an old friend named Audrey Stone Geisel, who not only influenced his later books, but now guards his legacy as the president of Dr. Seuss Enterprises, because of his death on September 24, 1991. He died as a remarkable man, who created a memorable place in the world for himself. His books, biographys and so on will be cherished for centuries to come. Dr. Seuss will never die!

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About My Author - DR.SEUSS!!