Dr. Seuss: The Great American Children's Poet
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Dr. Seuss is the pseudonym for Theodor Seuss Geisel III, Ted Geisel to
his friends. He originally thought of his pen name being pronounced zo-oice
which is the German pronunciation. He took his middle name from his mother's
maiden name.
He was born in 1904 to Theodor Jr. and Henrietta Geisel of ....
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.... Helen Palmer to whom he was
married for 40 years until her death. They moved to New York. While in New York
he worked drawing cartoon advertisments for Flit, an insect repellant. It was he
who coined the phrase “Quick Henry, the Flit” which was to 1930s advertising
what “Just Do It” is to 1990s advertising. Sort of.
They later moved to La Jolla, California where Ted lived for the rest of
his life. They loved children although they were unable to have any of their own.
About five y ....
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