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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Morgan, Judith. Dr. Seuss & Mr. Geisel. New York : Random House, c1995 (OCoLC)604269090 |
| Named Person: | Seuss, Dr. |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Judith Morgan; Neil Morgan |
| ISBN: | 0679416862 9780679416869 |
| OCLC Number: | 30594210 |
| Description: | xix, 345 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Springfield (1900-1915) -- Springfield (1915-1921) -- Dartmouth (1921-1925) -- Oxford (1925-1925) -- Oxford (1925-1926) -- Helen Palmer Geisel (1927-1928) -- New York (1928-1935) -- Mulberry Street (1936-1938) -- Horton Hatches the Egg (1938-1940) -- World War II (1941-1946) -- Hollywood (1946-1950) -- The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1951-1953) -- La Jolla (1953-1955) -- The Cat in the Hat (1955-1960) -- Green Eggs and Ham (1960-1963) -- Fox in Socks (1964-1967) -- The Lorax (1967-1971) -- Audrey Stone Geisel (1971-1974) -- I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! (1975-1980) -- The Butter Battle Book (1981-1984) -- Your Only Old Once! (1985-1986) -- Oh, the Places You Go! (1987-1991). |
| Other Titles: | Doctor Seuss and Mister Geisel. |
| Responsibility: | Judith & Neil Morgan. |
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Abstract:
Was Ted Geisel really a genius, as his publisher Bennett Cerf believed, or, as he himself always insisted, just lucky? In forty-seven books of nonsensical charm, from And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street in 1937 to Oh, the Places You'll Go! in 1990, his recurring theme was that children had an inalienable right to mischief, love, and hope. But many librarians and teachers considered him a subversive influence when his revolutionary Cat in the Hat signaled the demise of dreary Dick-and-Jane primers. Ted Geisel was a dreamer who saw the world "through the wrong end of a telescope." In his eighty-seven years, he met seven U.S. presidents, but was more proud of the fact that he had seen Halley's Comet twice. An obsessively private man, he rarely revealed anything of his personal and professional agonies - or of the bawdy Seussian verses he wrote for friends.
Judith and Neil Morgan knew Ted Geisel in the latter half of his life, and here they merge their firsthand insights with scholarly research, drawing material from hundreds of letters and interviews, as well as from their subject's notes for an unpublished autobiography. They had full access to Geisel's voluminous papers, illuminating his relationship with both of his wives and providing instructive glimpses of his creative processes. The result is a frank and felicitous biography as unique as its subject.
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