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'''Theodor Seuss Geisel''' (2 March 1904 – 24 September 1991) better known by his ''[[pen name|nom de plume]]'' of '''Dr. Seuss''', was an [[America|American]] author and illustrator. A graduate of [[Dartmouth]] and [[Oxford]], he spent many unsuccessful years before fame would find him. A keen proponent of [[phonics]], he expressed regrets that his books had been used as part of the "[[John Dewey|Dewey revolt]]" in the 1920s, "in which they threw out phonics reading and went to word recognition, as if you're reading [[Chinese character|Chinese pictographs]] instead of blending sounds of different letters. I think killing phonics was one of the greatest causes of [[illiteracy]] in the country."<ref>[http://www.nrrf.org/article_kcs_3-11-02.htm ''Dr. Seuss believed in phonics'']. Originally interviewed for ''Arizona Magazine''. June 1981. Sourced NRRF. 13 May 2008</ref>
'''Theodor Seuss Geisel''' (2 March 1904 – 24 September 1991) better known by the [[pen name]] of '''Dr. Seuss''', was a [[liberal]] children's author who wrote over 60 books between 1937 and 1990, including such classics as [[Green Eggs and Ham]], [[How the Grinch Stole Christmas]] and [[The Cat in the Hat]]. He was married to Helen Palmer, who committed suicide in 1967, and then married Audrey Stone in 1968. He had no children.
== Politics ==
Seuss identified himself as a [[liberal]] [[Democrat]], and his political views often show up in his work. [[The Lorax]] heavily promotes [[environmentalism]], with a righteous "Lorax" facing an evil "Once-ler" (obviously a stand-in for humans). The Lorax bothers the Once-ler by harrassing his workshop, and the narration doesn't face any concerns about the Once-ler's environment-harming business, like the fact that if it was shut down, everyone working would lose their jobs.
Seuss's book ''Horton Hears a Who'' is heavily promoted in [[pro-life]] circles, mostly because of the repeated line "A person's a person, no matter '''how''' small!" Seuss denied any [[pro-life]] metaphors in the book and claimed that it was a metaphor for the Hiroshima bombing.
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