Theodore Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, is one of the most well known children's authors of all time. An Academy Award winning author and illustrator, Seuss created hundreds upon hundreds of characters and stories that were imaginative and educational.

Geisel was born in 1904 in Massachusetts and moved from his Springfield home to attend Dartmouth College, where he worked for the college's humor magazine Jack-O-Lantern. During his days on staff with the magazine he first began to use the pseudonym "Seuss," which was his middle name and his mother's maiden name. After Dartmouth he attended Oxford University because his father wanted him to become a teacher. Instead of studying, however, Geisel toured Europe and eventually met his first wife, Helen Palmer. After England Geisel started working for The Saturday Evening Post as a cartoonist while also working in advertising, which he kept up for 15 years.

When World War II began he hoped to join in on the political movement so started drawing political cartoons with a liberal publication. After working with some animated training films, in 1937 he wrote his first book, And to Think That I Saw it On Mulberry Street. Next came The Cat in the Hat, a joint production between Houghton Mifflin and Random House. When Dr. Seuss's first wife died he married Audrey Stone Geisel, who currently resides as the president of Dr. Seuss Enterprises.

When Dr. Seuss died in 1991, he had written 44 children's books, most of which came in the form of Random House's "Beginner Books" series. Several of his stories eventually went on to become television series, like The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs & Ham, Horton Hears a Who and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Others were made into Hollywood films (The Cat in the Hat and How the Grinch Stole Christmas) as well as a Broadway musical.