Dr. Seuss: Theodore Geisel's Personal Life

“One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish.” the words that so many people have either read or have been read to. This is only eight words from the countless top selling and critically acclaimed books, but already, people around the world already know who I am inferring about. These words are from the award winning and thought to be most creative writer of his time, Theodore Geisel, or much more commonly known, the Dr. Seuss. In this analytic-biography, I am going to discuss Geisel’s personal life, ways this connected to his writing, his transition into writing, how his works works not only inspired me but many others around the world, and much more. First is about Geisel’s personal life. Many people know that writers often use their own life

While returning from an ocean voyage from Europe, he then wrote his first book from the rhythm of the ship’s engine which he also illustrated. This book was called “And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street.” After this he would then publish many more books that became very popular. As he got deeper into his career, his wife died and he remarried an old friend, Audrey Stone Geisel. Theodor Seuss Geisel, best known as Dr. Seuss, died on September 24, 1991, at the age of 87, in La Jolla, California. Ted had written and illustrated 44 children's books, including such all-time favorites as Green Eggs and Ham, Oh, the Places You'll Go, Fox in Socks, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. His books have been translated into more than 15 languages. Over 200 million copies have been sold. Besides the books, his works have provided the source for eleven children's television specials, a Broadway musical and a feature-length motion picture. His awards included two Academy awards, two Emmy awards, a Peabody award and the Pulitzer Prize. This showed what came of his career and his later

First is thought to be his most defining book “The Cat In the Hat.” Seuss wrote The Cat in the Hat because he was worried that children were not learning to read. Publishers were saying that kids were losing their interest on reading and that basic books like Dick and Jane were a major cause of children failing to read. William Spaulding, whom Seuss had worked with during the Second World War and who was then the director of Houghton Mifflin’s education division, challenged him to “Write me a story that first graders can’t put down!” He asked that Seuss limit the book’s vocabulary to no more than 250 different words, choosing those words from a list of 348. Accustomed to using any words he liked or even making up words, Seuss nearly gave up when he faced the word list. “A 236-word book, that rhymes, and entertains, is darn hard to write!” (Israel) Seuss often times loved to tell good stories rather than true stories to the media. His favorite story is that frustration with the list inspired the book. As he put it, “I read the list three times and almost went out of my head. I said, I’ll read it once more and if I can find two words that rhyme, that’ll be the title of my book… . I found ‘cat’ and ‘hat’ and I said, The title will be The Cat in the Hat.”Although this story may not be true it showed the new creative thinking in children’s books.. In the very first interviews he gave after the book’s