He hadn't died in 1991 at the age of 87. Cards would have been addressed to Theodore Seuss Geisel, his birth name however he was nicknamed "Ted."
He was an energetic man - a children's author, political cartoonist, poet, animator. film maker. He wrote 60 childrens books and sold 600 million of them. He lived well in La Jolla and on his death from oral cancer his ashes were put in the Pacific Ocean.
When he wasn't doing all the other stuff, he was having an affair with the woman who would become is second wife. First wife Helen Paumer committed suicide. She had symptoms of Guillame-Barre. They had married in 1927 and were until she took an overdoes of prescription medicine at age 68 when the symptoms became full-blown.
His second wife Audrey had been previously married to to E Grey Dimond when both were medical students. Audrey was 21 at the time. She brought that couple's two daughters into "Ted's" life. Dimond became the Dean of Cardiology at Kansas University.
As unlikely as it may seem, Seuss has two stars in the 6500 block of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. If you haven't got anything else to do today, maybe pedal over and leave a posy or two on them?
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