Dr. Suess

By amelia griffin

  • Birth

  • Leaves home to attend Dartmouth Collage

    18 years old

  • Married, and dropped out of Oxford

    After Dartmouth, Suess attended Oxford with plans to become a professor. At Oxford, he met his wife, Hele Palmer. Same year he dropped out and moved back to the states

  • First time using pen name "Suess"

    Published a cartoon in an issue of The Saturday Evening Post, landed him a staff position at the New York weekly Judge

  • First Book published

    After illustrating a collection called Boners, and sold poorly, he wrote his book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. It was rejected 27 times

  • Making training fils for WWII

    Too old for the draft, he served with Frank Capra's Signal Corps, made animated training films, drawing propaganda posters

  • The Cat in the Hat

    response to a LIFE article, Houghton Mifflin and Random House asked him to write a book with 220 vocabulary words. (was published in 1957, landed him a place in children's lit)

  • How the Grinch Stole Christmas

    one of his favorites. With help of cartoonist Chuck Jones, the Grinch was adapted into an animated film

  • Wife, Helen, commits suicide

    after suffering from bone cancer, and emotional pain of Suess having affair with Audrey Stone Diamond. He marries Diamond following year

  • Death