Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel

Biography: Dr. Seuss (pen name for Theodor Geisel) continues to be the best-selling children's author in the world. Seuss, who understood the serious nature of whimsy, offered beginning readers a fanciful alternative to the mundane world of Dick and Jane. Although he is best known for his innovative approach to children's literature, Seuss won two academy awards for best documentary and was a talented political satirist. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Random House, 1957) and Cat in the Hat (Random House, 1957) have been translated into Latin by Jennifer Morrish Tunberg and Terence O. Tunberg as Quomodo Invidiosulus nomine Grinchus Christi natalem Abrogaverit: How the Grinch Stole Christmas in Latin (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1998), and Cattus Petasatus: The Cat in the Hat in Latin (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2000).