Theodore Seuss Geisel\nBorn March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991\nEducation Dartmouth College and a graduate student at the University of Oxford\n\nGeisel adopted the name \"Dr. Seuss\" as an undergraduate at Dartmouth College and a graduate student at the University of Oxford. He left Oxford in 1927 to begin his career as an illustrator and cartoonist for Vanity Fair, Life, and various other publications.\n\nHis first nationally published cartoon appeared in the July 16, 1927, issue of The Saturday Evening Post. This single $25 sale encouraged Geisel to move from Springfield to New York City.\n\nLater that year, Geisel accepted a job as writer and illustrator at the humor magazine Judge, and he felt financially stable enough to marry Helen. His first cartoon for Judge appeared on October 22, 1927, and the Geisels were married on November 29. Geisel\'s first work signed \"Dr. Seuss\" was published in Judge about six months after he started working there.\n\nGeisel supported himself and his wife through the Great Depression by drawing advertising for General Electric, NBC, Standard Oil, Narragansett Brewing Company, and many other companies. In 1935, he wrote and drew a short-lived comic strip called Hejji.\n\nAs World War II began, Geisel turned to political cartoons, drawing over 400 in two years as editorial cartoonist for the left-leaning New York City daily newspaper, PM. Geisel\'s political cartoons, later published in Dr. Seuss Goes to War, denounced Hitler and Mussolini and were highly critical of non-interventionists (\"isolationists\"), most notably Charles Lindbergh, who opposed US entry into the war.\n\nIn 1942, Geisel turned his energies to direct support of the U.S. war effort. First, he worked drawing posters for the Treasury Department and the War Production Board. Then, in 1943, he joined the Army as a Captain and was commander of the Animation Department of the First Motion Picture Unit of the United States Army Air Forces, where he wrote films that included Your Job in Germany, a 1945 propaganda film about peace in Europe after World War II; Our Job in Japan; and the Private Snafu series of adult army training films. While in the Army, he was awarded the Legion of Merit.\n\nAfter the war, Geisel and his wife moved to La Jolla, California, where he returned to writing children\'s books. He wrote many, including such favorites as If I Ran the Zoo (1950), Horton Hears a Who! (1955), If I Ran the Circus (1956), The Cat in the Hat (1957), How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957), One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, and Green Eggs and Ham ( both in 1960).\n\nDr Seuss also wrote the musical and fantasy film The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T., which was released in 1953.\n\nAwards:\nLaura Ingalls Wilder Medal\nHe won a special Pulitzer Prize in 1984 citing his \"contribution over nearly half a century to the education and enjoyment of America\'s children and their parents\"\n2009 Society of Illustrators Lifetime Achievement Award\n\nonline gallery: http://www.drseussgallery.com/

Theodore Seuss Geisel History of American Illustration