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Birth
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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