Dr. Seuss

Many of us know about Dr. Seuss's works, like the Lorax and the Cat in the Hat. But He wasn't always the beloved children's books author we know and love.
Theodor Seuss Geisel was born in 1904 in Springfield, Massachusets. He attended Dartmouth College and became the editor in chief Jack-O-Lantern, Which was the school's humor, magazine. In 1925, Seuss and some of his buddies were drinking in their dorm and they got caught, since they were violating prohibition(which was from 1920 to 1933), they were put on probation and Geisel lost his position as editor in Chief. Because he lost his post in the Magazine he published cartoons under many different aliases like: L. Pasteur, D.G. Rossetti ’25, T. Seuss, and Seuss.
Dr. Seuss, was not a real doctor, although  He attended Oxford University after graduating from Dartmouth so he could get his Ph.D. in English. There he met the woman who would go on to be his wife, Helen Palmer, who told him that he should draw instead. In 1927 he dropped out of Oxford and moved back to the U.S with his wife.
When he moved back to the U.S he became a cartoonist and had his drawing published in magazines such as LIFE and Vanity Fair. His most Famous advertising job was under Standard Oil advertising an insecticide called FLIT. He made many advertisements with the catchphrase, "Quick, Henry the FLIT".

Seuss got his Idea for his first book while he aboard a ship in 1936. He presented it to about 27 different publishers but he was rejected by all. He was about to give up when he ran into a former classmate who was Juvenile Editor of Vanguard Press. They went to the offices and there they signed a contract for Seuss's first book. The name of the book: And to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street.

During WWII, Geisel stopped writing children's books and instead created political cartoons. He created cartoons for a liberal Magazine called PM Magazine. There he criticized and poked fun at the Axis powers as well as Isolationists, most notably Charles Lindbergh. He also drew many cartoons denouncing Racism against groups such as Jews and Blacks.Seuss Stated, "We were going to have no choice in the matter. If war with the Axis powers was inevitable, then the U.S. had better get prepared".
In1942, Geisel started working for the War Production Board and the Treasury Department. Made Drawings and Animated Films.

Your Job In Germany written by Theodor Geisel

After the War, He went back to writing Children's Books. He wrote books like If I ran the Zoo and Horton Hears a Who, which has a theme of equality. Seuss had strong anti-Japanese sentiment but after a visit to Japan he changed his mind and wrote Horton Hears a Who, which states "A person's a person no matter how small"; the "small" can be referencing anything such as race, color, creed, sex or nationality.

In 1954, there was a lot of criticism that children could not learn to read. One theory was that the books that children were using to read were too boring. So, Houghton Mifflin(publishers) asked him to write an entertaining book for young children that was no more that 225 different words and gave him a word bank of 348 words. In 1957, The Cat in the Hat was published and was a massive success. He went on to write many other books such as Green Eggs and Ham(1960) and The Lorax(1971).

Dr. Seuss died on September 24, 1991. His works had good messages of peace, taking care of our planet, treating others right and equality and are still as popular, if not more than, as when they were originally published and have a special place in many peoples hearts.