![]() ![]() He published his first children's book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street in 1937. He also worked as an illustrator for advertising campaigns, most notably for FLIT and Standard Oil, and as a political cartoonist for the New York newspaper PM. He left Oxford in 1927 to begin his career as an illustrator and cartoonist for Vanity Fair, Life and various other publications. ![]() ![]() Seuss" as an undergraduate at Dartmouth College and as a graduate student at Lincoln College, Oxford. His work includes many of the most popular children's books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and being translated into more than 20 languages by the time of his death. He is known for his work writing and illustrating more than 60 books under the pen name Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel ( / s uː s ˈ ɡ aɪ z əl, z ɔɪ s -/ ( listen) Ma– September 24, 1991) was an American children's author and cartoonist. ![]()
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When Roald Dahl, a dashing young ex-RAF pilot, took up his post at the British Embassy in Washington, his assignment was to use his good looks, wit, and considerable charm to gain access to the most powerful figures in American political life. ![]() ![]() This startlingly original Middle-East-meets-Wild-West fantasy reveals what happens when a dream deferred explodes-in the fires of rebellion, of romantic passion, and the all-consuming inferno of a girl finally embracing her power. But though she’s spent years dreaming of leaving Dustwalk, she never imagined she’d gallop away on mythical horse-or that it would take a foreign fugitive to show her the heart of the desert she thought she knew. Then she meets Jin, a rakish foreigner, in a shooting contest, and sees him as the perfect escape route. 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