Dr. Seuss: The Great American Children's Poet


Dr. Seuss is the pseudonym for Theodor Seuss Geisel III, Ted Geisel to
his friends. He originally thought of his pen name being pronounced zo-oice
which is the German pronunciation. He took his middle name from his mother's
maiden name.

He was born in 1904 to Theodor Jr. and Henrietta Geisel of Springfiel
Massachusetts. Both sets of grandparents were from Germany. Theodor Jr. was a
wealthy brewer and tavern owner until the Prohibition. Then he worked as the
manager of the Springfield Zoo. Ted also had an older sister named Marnie. He
went to college at Dartmouth and graduate school at Oxford. While at Dartmouth
he got into a bit of trouble when the police arrested him for drinking. (This
was during the Prohibition.) As punishment he was kicked off the school magazine,
The Jack O'Lantern, to which he contributed as a cartoonist. To get around the
rule he began to sign his work as Dr. Seuss. And that is why Ted Geisel became
Dr.......

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