 Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a.
Dr. Seuss was born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1904. He graduated
Dartmouth College and attended Oxford University. He received honorary
doctorates from Princeton, J.F. Kennedy University, Dartmouth and Brown
University.Geisel was a Lt. Colonel in the Army in World War II. After the
war he and his first wife, Helen moved from Los Angeles to La Jolla. There they
built a house on 6 ½ acres next to an observation tower that eventually
became part of his living room wall. Within a year of Helen’s death in
1967, Geisel married Audrey Stone Dimond, a nurse 20 years his junior, the two
remained together until his death.
By the time he died in 1991, he wrote and illustrated nearly 50 books.
During his lifetime his books sold over 100 million copies and have been
translated into 20 different languages and that number continues to rise at an
accelerated rate. His book, Green Eggs and Ham, is the third largest selling
book in the English language, EVER.
For his writings, Dr. Seuss had been honored with a Pulitzer Prize, two Emmy
awards, a Peabody and three Academy Awards, along with many other literary
awards.
In 1997, The Chase Group acquired exclusive worldwide rights to publish the
work of Dr. Seuss as limited edition prints. Along with publishing certain book
illustrations, Chase is making available editions of Seuss’s, "Secret
Art". These are paintings that Geisel painted for his own pleasure and
never before shown to the public and exhibit a more sophisticated, technically
accomplished and quite unrestrained side to his talent.
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