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m. 1968 - 1991
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m. 1927 - 1967
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Mar 15, 2023 · Dr. Seuss married Audrey Stone Dimond within a year of the death of his first wife. And it was to almost no one’s surprise. Audrey had met her first husband E. Drey Dimond when both were medical students at Indiana University.
Helen Marion Palmer Geisel (September 16, 1898 – October 23, 1967), known professionally as Helen Palmer, was an American children's writer, editor, and philanthropist. She was also the Founder and Vice President of Beginner Books, and was married to fellow writer Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, from 1927 until her death.
- Helen Geisel
- October 23, 1967 (aged 69), La Jolla, California, U.S.
- Helen Marion Palmer, September 16, 1898, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
- Children's literature
May 3, 2020 · Helen Palmer (maiden name Helen Marion Palmer Geisel), best known as the first wife of children’s author Dr. Seuss, was born on 16th September 1898 in Brooklyn, New York. Helen’s parents raised her in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant.
- Dr. Seuss’ real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel. A grandson of German immigrants, Theodor (without an “e”) was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on March 2, 1904.
- Teddy Roosevelt left Dr. Seuss with a permanent case of stage fright. Affirming the loyalties of his German-American family during World War I, 14-year-old Ted Geisel was one of Springfield’s top sellers of war bonds.
- Bootleg gin was responsible for the Dr. Seuss pseudonym. It certainly wasn’t a scene out of “Animal House,” but on the night before Easter in 1925, the local police chief caught Dartmouth College senior Ted Geisel partying with his friends and a pint of bootleg gin.
- Dr. Seuss was a 'madman.' Dr. Seuss achieved early success writing and illustrating humorous advertisements for Flit, a bug spray manufactured by Standard Oil.
Helen Palmer Geisel was Dr. Seuss's first wife. She met first met her future husband at Oxford University in England and married him in 1927. She had a major influence on her husband's life and career, including presuading him to take up a career in art.
Geisel joked that he would now have to sign "Dr. Dr. Seuss". His wife was ill at the time, so he delayed accepting it until June 1956. Geisel's wife Helen had a long struggle with illnesses. On October 23, 1967, Helen died by suicide.
May 4, 2024 · With his first wife, Helen Palmer Geisel, he wrote the Oscar-winning documentary feature Design for Death (1947). His animated cartoon Gerald McBoing-Boing (1950) also won an Academy Award.
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