Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Think about all the characters you most associate with the Christmas season. There's Santa Claus, of course, and his various ...

It all started with a glare in the mirror. Theodor Geisel, at the time a former ad writer turned marginally successful author of children’s books, caught a glimpse of his own scowl in the mirror.

He nauseates us. His head’s not screwed on right. His soul is an appalling dump heap overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of deplorable rubbish imaginable. He’s got garlic in his soul, and ...