His pen name was Dr. Seuss. His real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel. Most kids know him as the author of The Cat and the Hat. He wrote and illustrated many other books for children, and he produced a series of TV specials including The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. Geisel began writing and publishing books in the early 1930s. The Cat and the Hat, Geisels most famous book, was published in 1957. It was a whole new kind of book for beginning readers. Before The Cat and the Hat, beginner books were mostly dull and repeated things a lot. Geisel thought that just because words were simple, they didn't have to be boring.
Theodor Seuss Geisel won three Academy Awards as well as a 1984 Pulitzer Prize for his contribution to over a half a centuries enjoyment and education of American children and parents.
Geisel worked as the head of Beginner Books for a big publisher, Random House, for many years.
A big collection of Geisel's original drawings and notebooks is kept at the Mandeville Special Collections Library located at the University of California in San Diego.
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