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Theodor Seuss Geisel was born on March 2, 1904, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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He became the editor in chief of its humor magazine, Jack-O-Lantern. Then got into some trouble with his friends and lost his job but continued to work undercover with the name Seuss.
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He met his future wife Helen Palmer, and they married a few years later.
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"And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" was rejected 27 times before it was finally published by Vanguard Press in 1937.
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The Grinch was adapted into an animated film.
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Dr. Seuss, died on September 24, 1991, at the age of 87, in La Jolla, California.