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Theodor Seuss Geisel was born in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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Got hIs pen name Seuss while writing for Dartmouth's Jacko- Lantern to avoid investagation by the authority.
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There he majored in english and graduated in 1925.
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He did not like it there so he quit that same year, but while he was there he met Helen Palmer.
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Seuss adds Dr. to the pen name upon dropping out of college so that his father would think that he had gotten his doctorate degree.
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Begins to sell cartoons to a variety of magazines as well as do advertising work.
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Marries Helen Palmer.
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Seuss publishes his first book for children, And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street.
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He served during the World War II and won Legion of Merit for his educational and informational films.
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He wins a Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award for Hitler Lives? (Your Job in Germany).
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He wins a Best Documentary Feature Academy Award for Design for Death, a history of the Japanese people co-written with his wife, Helen.
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He publishes the book "If I Ran the Zoo" a honor to his father who was a zookeeper.
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He wins an Animated Cartoon Academy Award for Gerald McBoing-Boing
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He relaesed "The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T" in Colombia.
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He publishes "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!"
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He published "The Cat in the Hat."
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Seuss becomes president of Beginner Books.
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He published the book "Yertle the Turtle"
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He publishes One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish.
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He published and "Green Eggs and Ham."
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The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins"
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He publishes Hop on Pop (Theo Lesieg) first of the Bright and Early Books are published.
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He wins a Peabody Award for his television specials, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Horton Hears a Who.
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He published "The Lorax"
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He wins Critics Award at International Animated Cartoon Festival and Silver Medal at the International Film and TV Festival.
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Publish the book "Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now"
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This is only one of his 61 books he published.
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He wins the first ever Outstanding California Author Award presented by the California Association of Teachers of English.
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He receives and Emmy for Best Children's Special for Halloween Is Grinch Night
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Governors of several states declare Dr. Seuss 77th birthday Dr. Seuss Day.
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Dr. Seuss wins the Pulitzer Prize
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"You're Only Old Once!" was his last book he publish before his death.
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Dr. Seuss died in his sleep on September 24, 1991 at the age of 87, after a prolonged about with jaw cancer.
