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Theodor SEUSS GeiselThe man behind the pen

By: Monique Sims

+Life

• Born March 2, 1904

• Died September 24, 1991

• Lived through: Sinking of Titanic, Prohibition,

World War 1 and 2, Cold War

• Springfield, MA

• Came from wealthy family (Family owned

Brewery)

• Critical and cold father, encouraging loving

mother, older sister

• Married twice

• Never had children of his own

+ Social/Emotional/Cognitive Characteristics

• Overexcitabilities• Imaginational

• Creativity

• Intellectual• Curiosity• Awareness/

alertness • Emotional

• Empathy• Emotional

Intensity• Underachievement• “Logical-nonsense”• Enjoyed learning

• Creative writing

• Cartooning• Superior language skills• Sense of Humor• Failure Avoidance

• Self-doubt• Perfectionism• Multipotentiality

• Film making• Political Cartoonist• Advertisement• Children’s/Adult

books

+ Eminence

• Three Oscars

• Two Emmys

• Three Caldecott Honor Awards

• At least 9 Honorable Doctorates

• 47 Children’s Books

• Innumerable Political Cartoons

• And many, many more

+ Interesting Facts

• Most of the Political Cartoons he wrote were related to

Prohibition

• A lot of his Political Cartoons poked fun at different

races (no race spared)

• Didn't write his first children’s book until 1937

• The Cat in the Hat is his most famous book and it

drastically increased the sales of all previous books

• Cheated on his wife while she was dying

• Came up with the Pseudonym Dr. Seuss after being

banned from writing at Dartmouth because of being

caught with Alcohol during prohibition

• Dropped out of Oxford

• Last book written: Oh, the placed you’ll Go! Published

1990