From there to here,
from here to there,
funny things
are everywhere.
Theodor Suess Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, was not actually a doctor, but a publisher, artist, and American author. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1904, Dr. Suess attended Dartmouth College and Oxford Universit, as a student of English. He earned a living as a cartoon artist for almost a decade, being a self-taught sketch artist, until, in 1937,he wrote and illustrated And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street , his first children's book using the pen name Dr. Seuss. It was an instant success because of the whimsy that he instilled into it and the simple rhyming text. Books such as The King's Stilts (1939) and Horton Hatches the Egg (1940) followed. In 1947, Seuss wrote a documentery about the Japanese people called Design for Death that won him an Academy Award. He quickly returned to writing children's books after the war, and for the next several decades he continued to write books such as The Cat in the Hat (1957), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1957), and Green Eggs and Ham (1970). In 1984, Seuss received a special Pulitzer Prize for his lifetime contribution to the American public through his books. You're Only Old Once (1986) and Oh, the Places You'll Go! (1990) were Seuss's last books and were written for adult audiences and became best-sellers. Dr. Seuss died in 1991.