The Birth Of Dr. Seuss Formatted

by Adam Lipsius

Overview

"The Birth of Dr. Seuss" was hailed as "a quite brilliant critical biography of Dr. Seuss," by Donald Pease, the Dartmouth College Ted & Helen Geisel Professor in the Humanities who recently wrote "Theodor SEUSS Geisel (Lives & Legacies)."

Little in this world irritated Ted Geisel, Dr. Seuss’ guardian and alter-ego, more than the needling question: ‘where do you get all those crazy ideas?’ Sometimes he’d snap back, more often than not he’d just laugh and tell you that he didn’t know how to draw and so couldn’t be responsible for what happened on the page, and on a few occasions he let interrogators know that they’d just asked him what was probably the stupidest question ever conceived.

Nevertheless, that's what this book sets out to uncover.

Ted "Dr. Seuss" Geisel revolutionized advertising, fought in World War II and won 3 Academy Awards long before becoming famous as a children's author. Voted least likely to succeed by his friends in college, he became one of the best-selling writers of all-time.

The Birth of Dr. Seuss offers a glimpse of the unformed class clown and ne'er do well who would grow into the icon so many of us were raised reading.

This is an in-depth study of who he was before he was famous with intimations of what set him apart in later life. "The Birth of Dr. Seuss" introduces Theodor Seuss (pronounced "Soice") Geisel, the man behind the Cat in the Hat, the Lorax, Horton and a host of other characters who have made our world a better place.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148899570
Publisher:	Uptown 6
Publication date:	11/13/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	685 KB

About the Author

Writer Adam Lipsius is also a feature film Director, Producer and Screenwriter. His movie, "16-LOVE," was distributed in 2012 by Warner Bros. Digital, Gravitas Ventures and Entertainment One. It was a day-and-date Video On Demand hit, racking up over 18 months on iTunes' best-seller lists.
His screen-play, "T-Minus," is shooting now with the Asylum in Los Angeles (November, 2013) and is slated for release on April 29th, 2014.
He's working on a kids’ mystery book, entitled "Knox Chase on the Case" and is simultaneously developing the feature version of the film with producer Sean Covel ("Napoleon Dynamite"). Additionally, he's working on a movie about the 834th Photo Signal detachment during World War II, a documentary on false confessions in conjunction with the Innocence Project and producer Lindsey Gutterman (Dateline, 48 Hours) and a slate of SciFi films with Uptown 6 and Don't Pose Productions.
His "Making of 16-LOVE" half-hour behind-the-scenes featurette ran extensively on Tennis Channel, and his documentary about family businesses in Colorado, "Generations," premiered on Rocky Mountain PBS on January 8th, 2012.
An alumnus of Dartmouth College and USC Graduate School of Cinema-Television, where 3 of his short films played festivals around the world, he's received numerous awards for his commercials and movies. Adam wrote this book for his Presidential Scholars thesis at Dartmouth and now lives in Denver, CO with his wife and kids.