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For this installment of favored authors, I thought I would write about a writer who was also an illustrator, in a very distinct style. It is interesting that he majored in English, not art when he was an undergrad at Dartmouth. Indeed, he went to Oxford to pursue a graduate degree in English but married and came back to the United States before finishing it, and was persuaded by his wife to become a commercial illustrator and not a Professor of English as he had originally intended. His first book, written during the depression and inspired by his hometown of Springfield Massachusetts, was rejected by roughly 27 publishers before finally Vanguard Press took a chance on it. I must say, I rather admire that kind of persistence.
The book was, of course "To think that I saw it on Mulberry Street!"
So let us talk, guilelessly, of the author and the man who made the statement in the title: Theodor Seuss Geisel. Otherwise known as Dr. Seuss. Join me, kiddies, underneath the orange squiggle
