Dr. Seuss – American cartoonist
Dr. Seuss was an American children’s writer, illustrator, editor, and publisher.
Theodor Seuss Geisel was born on March 2, 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts. He was born into a family of a brewer. All his grandparents were immigrants from Germany. His father was the director of a local zoo and the director of the National Park. In his childhood Theodor liked to draw inhabitants of the zoo.
Dr. Seuss graduated from Dartmouth College and went to study at Oxford, which he did not finish. After studying more than a year, he left Oxford and went on a journey throughout Europe. When he returned to America he became a political cartoonist and advertising artist. In Oxford Geisel met his future wife – Helen, who was his co-author and a true friend. They got married in 1927.
On October 23, 1967 due to suffering from a long struggle with the diseases, including cancer, and emotional pain of her husband’s affair with Audrey Stone Dimond, Helen Palmer Geisel committed suicide.
Geisel married Dimond on June 21, 1968.
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