So I wrote the story about my sour friend, the Grinch, to see if I could rediscover something about Christmas that obviously I'd lost." 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas' was Dr. "Something had gone wrong with Christmas, I realized, or more likely with me. It was Seuss!" said Geisel in a 1957 interview with Redbook. "I was brushing my teeth on the morning of the 26th of last December when I noted a very Grinchish countenance in the mirror. Seuss? When the beloved writer and illustrator of more than 60 books (real name: Theodor Seuss Geisel) brought to life the titular grumpy Mount Crumpit resident with a heart "two sizes too small" in his 1957 holiday classic, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, he didn’t have to look far for inspiration.
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