
Geisel married Helen Palmer, a lady he met while studying at Oxford. Geisel later attended the University of Oxford in England but he dropped out. (Image credit: Greg Williams on Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 2.5) While at Dartmouth College, he became the editor in chief of its humor magazine, Jack-O-Lantern which later dropped him after a drinking misdemeanor but managed to contribute to the magazine using the pseudonym “Seuss.” Dr seuss cartoon. Seuss published over 60 books, the first of which was a children’s book called And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, which was published in 1937.Īs a young man, Geisel’s life had already started following a trajectory that’d eventually lead him to fame as a writer. Seuss was his pen name and it’s way more famous than his real name. His father’s name is Theodor Robert Geisel and his mother was Henrietta Seuss Geisel.

Seuss was born Theodor Seuss Geisel on March 2, 1904, in Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.

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