Theodore Geisel was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on March 2, 1904. He



graduated from Dartmouth in 1925, with a BA in English literature. He went to Europe



after to study at Oxford. He then went to Sorbonne and then to the University of Vienna.



He planned on getting a doctorate in literature, but the experience was less than ideal so



he returned to the United States. (LeBeau 20)



In 1927 Geisel married Helen Palmer who was a classmate of his from Oxford.



She was also a children's author, until her death in 1967. (Diehl 169)



Theodore started working for a magazine, Judge, in 1927. He worked there



doing cartoons and humorous ads for them. He was also submitting his work to other



magazines such as Life, Vanity Fair, and Liberty. In his ads he made a reference to an



insecticide called Flit, which were noticed and led to a tight contract to draw ads for Flit.



The contract said he couldn't do anything else. In his ad he used the......

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