Theodor Suess Geisel, born on March 2, 1904, was an American children’s author and cartoonist. Suess is known for writing over sixty books and also selling over 600 million copies and his books were translated into 2o languages before he died. He adopted the name “Dr. Suess” as an undergraduate at Dartmouth College and a graduate at Lincoln College, Oxford. Suess started his career as an illustrator in 1927 after he left Oxford. Suess made a lot of fortunes for himself but he had no heir to his intellectual properties when he died.
His parens were Henrietta and Theodor Rober Geisel.
Suess took a break from children’s literature during World War II to illustrate political cartoons, he worked at the animation and film department of the United States Army where he wrote and produce animations like “Design for Death” which helped him win Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film in 1947.
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Dr. Suess wrote children’s books like “If I Ran The Zoo”(1950), “The Cat In The Hat”(1957), “The Lorax”(1971), “The Butter Battle Book(1984), and many other classics.
Dr, Suess was inducted into the California Hall of Fame in 2008.
He married twice, Hellen Palmer(1927 died in 1967) and Audrey Stone Dimond in 1968.
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