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Here is a link, to the hometown of Dr. Seuss. He was born in 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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This was during World War I. During this time, Ted's family suffered serval hardships due to the war and prohibition. The family gradually recovered financially though.
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The book The Cat in the Hat was writtin to a response to a Life Magazine articel. This book was probably the defining book of Ted's career. With the release of this book, Ted became the definitive children's book author and illustrator.
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In his teenage years, Ted left Springfield to attend Dartmouth College, this is where he became editor-in-chief of the Jack-O-Latern, Dartmouth' s humor magazine.
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In his college years, Dr. Seuss attended Oxford University in England. This was maily to please his father.
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While he attended Oxford, he did meet his first wife, Helen Palmer. She was also a children's author and editor.
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World War II approached, and he began contributing weekly political cartoons to PM Magazine, a liberal publication.
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Ted's first wife, Helen Palmer, died on October 23, 1967. He then remarried Audrey Stone Geisel, who now guards his legacy ad the president of the Dr. Seuss Enterprises.
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Dr. Seuss died on September 24, 1991. At the time of his death, he had written and illustrated 44 children's books. They are now translated in more than 15 different languages.
