Dr. Seuss Autobiography
The date was March 2nd, 1904. And the frost was finally falling off the trees when I came into the world in Springfield, Massachusetts. Growing up in my family was always a fun and imaginative experience for me. Whenever my family did something new, or went on a trip, I loved to doodle the things I saw, or what I thought I could've seen. My imagination was so large as a child, and still is to this day, but I used to love to make up silly stories and tell them to my parents, I now wonder if they could’ve ever made since of them.
When I was older and a tad more mature to better understand the world around me, this fancy thing called the 18th amendment rolled around in 1919, which meant that people could no longer sell alcohol. But the part that mattered to me was that my family's brewery shop was shut down and we no longer could make money from it. But shortly after that, I went off to college and became an independent man. I attended a college called Dartmouth college in 1921 but years to come, I transferred to Oxford college. My goal then was to become an English professor, but after graduating and returning to the US I was still illustrating and I successfully published my first cartoon. Just months after returning to the US and publishing my first cartoon, I …show more content…
I was then given two options I could take the suggested treatment that would leave me unable to speak. Or I could have a less effective treatment, but still allow me to speak. I chose the latter. Years after, I received an honorary degree from Princeton University. I knew that my time was shortly to come so I decided to write and publish one last book, I called it Oh, the Places You’ll Go!. Sadly, the treatment for my cancer had proven not very effective and the cancer had spread throughout my body. On September 24th of 1991, I died due to cancer at the age of 87, widowing my