DR. SEUSS (Writer).

Dr. Seuss was born Theodor Geisel in Springfield, Massachusetts on March 2, 1904. After attending Dartmouth College and Oxford University, he began a career in advertising. Dr. Seuss’s first children’s book, and to Think that I Saw It on Mulberry Street, hit the market in 1937, changing the world of children’s literature forever.

Winner of Pulitzer Prize in 1984, two Emmy awards and three Academy awards, Seuss was the author and illustrator of 44 books, many of which have been made into audiocassettes, animated television specials and videos. His books include The Cat in the Hat, which infused 236 simple words with rythm, rhyme and humor, and Green Eggs and Ham, which used only 50 words.