Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss was the pen name of Theodor Seuss Geisel, an American children's author, illustrator and cartoonist who wrote and drew more than 60 books under it. He was best known for The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and The Lorax, and his last big book was Oh, the Places You'll Go!, published in 1990. Before his children's books, Geisel drew cartoons for magazines such as Vanity Fair and Life, and during the Second World War he drew political cartoons for the New York newspaper PM. He died in La Jolla, California, in 1991.