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  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Springfield, Massachusetts
  • PLACE OF DEATH: La Jolla, California
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Books such as Green Eggs and Ham and The Cat in the Hat made Dr. Seuss the best-selling children's author in the world.

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Born on March 2, 1904, in Springfield, Massachusetts, Theodor Geisel published his first children's book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, under the name of Dr. Seuss in 1937. Next came a huge string of best-selling successes, from Yertle the Turtle to Green Eggs and Ham, all filled with nonsense words and outlandish characters and worlds, loved by generations.

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"Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try."
– Dr. Seuss

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
– Dr. Seuss

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(born March 2, 1904, Springfield, Mass., U.S.—died Sept. 24, 1991, La Jolla, Calif.) U.S. writer and illustrator.He studied at Dartmouth College and did doctoral work at the University of Oxford. He began working in 1927 as a freelance cartoonist, illustrator, and writer. Under his pseudonym, Geisel began creating immensely popular children's books peopled with outlandish invented creatures and brimming with nonsense words. And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (1937), his first Dr. Seuss book, was followed by such huge successes as Horton Hatches the Egg (1940), The Cat in the Hat (1957), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1957), Yertle the Turtle (1958), and Green Eggs and Ham (1960). Such perennial best-sellers, and his posthumous Oh, the Places You'll Go! (1993), made him the best-selling children's author in the world.

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