There, it proved to be a classic that will run for the 26th consecutive year this holiday season. There are His books were forays into the world of nonsense and fantasy, with characters who captivated children through humor, rhyme and mischief--especially mischief--but laced with contemporary social and moral messages. The Sneetches paid for a lesson in class prejudice, and Horton came back to hatch the egg and learn about the rewards of acting with honor. They loved his loraxes and yopps, grinches grouching in grickle-grass, sneetches lurking in lerkims, the green-headed Quilligan quail.
Geisel was the illustrator first, writer second. He would tack his drawings onto the corkboard of his studio walls in storyboard fashion, muse over them, then write the appropriate nonsense couplets to accompany them. Personal friends said Geisel painstakingly separated his close-knit social life from his book work--literally a self-disciplined to job where he would sequester himself in a studio that provided him with a degree view of the Pacific coastline from Mexico to Oceanside.
As he turned the pages, he pointed out the dull passages and mundane story line. That constant repetition just turned them off to reading. I tried to turn them on. He never wrote a textbook per se--he wanted nothing to do with a book that children were forced to read--but his works have been used as supplementary readers for decades.
Geisel never published a book under his real name. Seuss is his middle name, and he was saving his own name for the great American novel. But when he finally wrote his novel--"The Seven Lady Godivas"--he was dissatisfied. That book, published in , was his only commercial flop. Once in a while, I have to write something in an adult magazine.
I get so frustrated; I wish I could get rid of all the garbage of excess words; I could draw what I want to say in a second. He vented his frustration at the whole medical process this way:.
The book quickly sold out a first printing of , copies and shot to the top of the New York Times best-seller list for nonfiction.
The one great regret of his career, Geisel said, was that he never refined his skills as a painter. Although he never was awarded the Caldecott Medal for illustration he won it for writing , a Dr. Seuss retrospective exhibit at the San Diego Museum of Art in attracted , visitors. Although scorned by some serious artists, it was one of the most popular exhibits ever staged at the museum, officials there said.
Geisel grew up in Springfield, Mass. Many of his wild characters were born while he sat on a zoo bench and conjured up visions and variations of the exotic animals. He studied literature at Dartmouth College, where he drew cartoons for Jack-O-Lantern, a humor magazine.
He then attended Oxford University and planned to get a doctorate and teach English literature. But he soon tired of the academic life and decided to return home. The famous Seuss verse and meter were born in the Atlantic Ocean on the liner Kungsholm. Seuss books full time. After writing and directing indoctrination movies for American troops, Geisel won an Oscar for best documentary short for a troop film that was released after the war by Warner Brothers.
Even though it became a cult hit, he distanced himself from it, angry over script changes after it left his typewriter. Several of Geisel's books have been transformed into full-length feature animated films, both during his lifetime and posthumously. In Horton Hears a Who! Geisel won numerous awards for his work, including the Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award, three Emmys and three Grammys. While studying at Oxford, Geisel met his future wife, Helen Palmer.
The couple married in and moved back to the United States the same year. In October , Palmer, who was suffering from both cancer and the emotional pain caused by an affair Geisel had with their longtime friend Audrey Stone Dimond, committed suicide. Geisel married Dimond, a film producer, the following year. In , the Art of Dr. Seuss collection was launched.
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