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Dr. Seuss
United States
Dr. Seuss, born Theodor Geisel in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1904, published his first children's book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street in 1937 after 27 rejections. He revolutionized children's literature with The Cat in the Hat 1957, written using only 220 vocabulary words. Over his career, he authored 44 books, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984, and three Academy Awards.
