Audrey Grace Florine Stone was the daughter of Norman Alfred Stone, an English medical furniture salesman, and … See more

Geisel studied nursing at Indiana University, earning a Bachelor of Science in nursing in 1944. Of her university application, she said she knew she was supposed to say that she wanted to "serve humanity", but what she really … See more

In 1945 she married fellow student Edmunds Grey Dimond. He became a resident physician at Indiana University Medical Center and later Dean of Cardiology at the University of Kansas. While the c… See more

Geisel met Seuss and his first wife, Helen Palmer, at a party in La Jolla. Of their first meeting she said, "As we went through the line, I noticed that when we got to Dr. Seuss, the inflection of the person introducing … See more

Before Seuss died, Geisel had "the impression that I was going to be fairly involved in everything, […] it began to dawn on me that there was going to be a tremendous transition after his loss – I was going to d… See more