The one and only cat in the hat from the iconic dr. The iconic story from the one and only. Theodor seuss geisel better known to millions of his fans as dr. Seuss was born the son of a park superintendent in springfield, massachusetts, in 1904. After studying at dartmouth college, new hampshire, and later at oxford university in england, he became a magazine humorist and cartoonist, and an advertising man. He soon turned his many talents to writing children s books, and his first book and to think that i saw it on mulberry street was published in 1937. His greatest claim to fame was the one and only the cat in the hat, published in 1957, the first of a hugely successful range of early learning books known as beginner books.