The Birth of Dr. Seuss

The Story of Theodor Seuss Geisel

Ted "Dr. Seuss" Geisel revolutionized advertising, fought in World War II and won 3 Academy Awards long before becoming famous as a children's author. Voted least likely to succeed by his friends in college, he became one of the best-selling writers of all-time. His impact on our culture is immeasurable.

The Birth of Dr. Seuss offers a glimpse of the unformed class clown and ne'er do well who would grow into the icon so many of us were raised reading. With focus on:



Ted's youth in Springfield, Mass.



His adventures and misadventures at Dartmouth College and Oxford University.


How he met his first wife, Helen, and how they forged a life together in New York at the outset of the Great Depression.


This is an in-depth study of who he was before he was famous with intimations of what set him apart in later life. The Birth of Dr. Seuss introduces Theodor Seuss (pronounced "Soice") Geisel, the man behind the Cat in the Hat, the Lorax, Horton and a host of other characters who have made our world a better place.