What was Dr. Seuss’s real name?
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Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss and some of his characters, from a commemorative U.S. postage stamp, 2004.
Dr. Seuss’s real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel. He adopted the pen name "Dr. Seuss" for his children's books, using "Dr." as a tongue-in-cheek reference to his uncompleted doctoral studies at the University of Oxford.12