Movement, Style, School or Type of Art:
Illustration

Date and Place of Birth:
March 2, 1904, Springfield, Massachusetts

Life:
"Ted" Geisel held a degree from Dartmouth and had spent a year at Oxford, when the woman who became his first wife persuaded him his future was in art, not a professorship. Though successful in commercial art, his writing career took off more slowly (his first work, And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street, was rejected 27 times before publication). His imaginative illustrations and easy words came to be loved by millions of emergent readers (and grateful parents, and grandparents).

Important Works:

The Cat in the Hat, 1957
How the Grinch Stole Christmas, 1957
Green Eggs and Ham, 1960
The Lorax, 1971
Oh, the Places You'll Go!, 1990

Date and Place of Death:
September 24, 1991, La Jolla, California