![]() ![]() Frith and Geisel chose the name in honor of Geisel’s second wife Audrey, whose maiden name was Stone. Geisel also published one book under the name Rosetta Stone, 1975’s Because a Little Bug Went Ka-Choo!!, a collaboration with Michael K. He added the “Doctor ” to his pen name because his father had always wanted him to practice medicine.įor books that Geisel wrote and others illustrated, he used the pen name “Theo LeSieg”, starting with I Wish That I Had Duck Feet published in 1965. Geisel switched to the anglicized pronunciation because it “evoked a figure advantageous for an author of children’s books to be associated with Mother Goose” and because most people used this pronunciation. You’re wrong as the deuceAnd you shouldn’t rejoiceIf you’re calling him Seuss.He pronounces it Soice Alexander Laing, one of his collaborators on the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern, wrote of it: He himself noted that it rhymed with “voice”. Geisel’s most famous pen name is regularly pronounced /sus/, an anglicized pronunciation inconsistent with his German surname. Going this way may seem like fun, but its just for Grown Ups.are you one? Please enter date of birth. ![]()
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