Biography geisel seuss theodor

(b. 2 March 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts; d. 24 September 1991 in La Jolla, California), author and illustrator of forty-seven children’s books and creator of fabled characters, including the title characters of Horton Hatches the Egg! (1940), The Cat in the Hat (1957), and How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957).

Geisel was the only son of first-generation German Americans Theodor Robert Geisel, a brewery owner before Prohibition forced the brewery’s closure in 1920, and Henrietta Seuss, a spunky, six-foot-tall homemaker.

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“Ted,” as young Geisel was called, had an older sister to whom he was devoted in childhood. A younger sister was born in 1906 but died of pneumonia eighteen months later; Geisel never forgot the image of her tiny casket in the music room of the three-story home at 74 Fairfield Street in Springfield.

Yet most of his childhood was happy, rich with family encouragement for his loopy, lopsided drawings of animals a