Helen Palmer Geisel

Helen Marion Palmer Geisel was an American childrens author, editor, and philanthropist. She was married to fellow author Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, from 1927 until her death. Her bestknown books include Do You Know What Im Going to Do Next Saturday, I Was Kissed by a Seal at the Zoo, Why I Built the Boogle House, and A Fish Out of Water.

Helen Marion Palmer was born in New York in 1898 and spent her childhood in BedfordStuyvesant, a prosperous Brooklyn neighborhood. As a child, she contracted polio but recovered from it almost completely. Her father, George Howard Palmer, was an ophthalmologist, and he died when she was 11. She graduated from Wellesley College with honors in 1920.

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