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March 2, 1904, Springfield (Massachusetts), USA - September 24, 1991, La Jolla - American children's writer and cartoonist.
The writer's childhood passed in the immediate vicinity of the zoo, and he spent whole days drawing its inhabitants - various animals, changing them beyond recognition. The writer's mother, whose maiden name - Seuss - Theodor Geisel chose as his pseudonym, supported her son in his studies. She let little Theo paint her bizarre animals on the walls of the attic and praised his drawings. The school drawing teacher, however, did not share the opinions of the writer's mother. In one of the lessons, he predicted to Geisel that he would never be able to learn to “draw normally”. Dr. Seuss later graduated from Dartmouth College with a bachelor's degree there, and went to study at Oxford, which subsequently did not graduate.
In his diaries, Theodor Geisel describes staying at the university as a pointless pastime that turned students away from culture. Theodore Geisel, as a true American, abhorred the stiffness of Oxford, the blind worship of senseless fetishes. After studying for just over a year, Geisel leaves Oxford and goes on a trip to Europe, and after returning to America, he starts working as a political cartoonist and advertising artist.
However, it was in Oxford that Theodor Geisel met his future wife, Helen, who became his co-author and faithful friend.
On October 23, 1967, suffering from a prolonged struggle with diseases, including cancer, and emotional pain from her husband's romance with Audrey Stone Diamond, his wife since 1927, Helen Palmer Geisel, committed suicide. Geisel married Diamond on June 21, 1968. Geisel had no children.
In 1980, Geisel received the Laura Ingles-Wilder Medal from the Children's Library Service Association (a division of the American Library Association) for his "substantial and lasting contribution to children's literature." At that time, the medal was awarded every five years. In 1984, Geisel was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize for "half a century of contributions to the education and development of American children and their parents."
