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The Story of Theodor Seuss Geisel

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. His impact on our culture is immeasurable.

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. With focus on:

Ted's youth in Springfield, Mass.
His adventures and misadventures at Dartmouth College and Oxford University.
How he met his first wife, Helen, and how they forged a life together in New York at the outset of the Great Depression.

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.

When asked about himself, Theodor Seuss Geisel might have told you about his mummy-digging expeditions to South America, his favorite Vodka (Smirnoff’s) or the fact that he spent a summer of his youth painting Italian donkeys.

What was harder to extract from him was the key to his alter-identity or the reason for his success. Amiable and easily amused, he grew hostile whenever queried about the source of his ‘crazy’ ideas or some explanation for the mayhem which unfolded in each of his stories. The friendly facade came down, and he’d tell you to your face it was none of your damned business. As plain old Ted, Geisel was known to acquaintances as a reclusive wit, a sarcastic genius and a sensitive, sometimes timid man, who on occasion might flee from a speaking engagement or shun human company, altogether.

To the world he was Dr. Seuss, conjuring all the mythical associations of childhood and imagination which his characteristic scribbles and compelling rhymes brought to children’s literature for over 50 years. Geisel and Seuss were complimentary profiles of the same conflicted man who grew up longing for approbation and acknowledgment but was frightened by the degrading pretenses of common acquaintance. He was torn between a mother who believed him possessed of greatness and a father whose own ambitions seldom permitted him to recognize the unique potential of his son’s.

About the author

Who is Adam Lipsius? | His story

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. "Asteroid vs. Earth," a script he was commissioned to write for the Asylum Film Studios, was shot in November, 2013 and will be released on April 29th, 2014. That studio has recently hired him to write and direct another disaster film about floods to be shot in the Summer or Fall of 2014.

His next book, a kids mystery novel called "Knox Chase on the Case," is nearly finished, and he's developing a feature film version of the book with Sean Covel (the producer of "Napoleon Dynamite"). Additionally, he's working on a documentary about false confessions in conjunction with the Innocence Project alongside producer Lindsey Gutterman ("48 Hours," "Dateline") as well as 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. He lives in Denver, CO with his wife and kids.