![]() ![]() "I got hung up on how to get the Grinch out of the mess. But he was stuck on the ending for months. It was easy for him to channel the villain and sprinkle in quips and complaints about Christmas's excess. Geisel wrote the majority of the story in just a few weeks. ![]() Fun Fact: Theodor Seuss Geisel was 53 years old when he wrote How the Grinch Stole Christmas! ![]() 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." In an interview with Redbook magazine published in 1957, Seuss explained that "Something had gone wrong with Christmas, I realized, or more likely with me. His wife was in poor health, and he was put off by how commercialized Christmas had become. Seuss) was brushing his teeth in the mirror when he noticed what he later described as a very Grinchish countenance in his reflection. On the morning of December 26th, 1956, Theodor Seuss Geisel (aka Dr. But what do you know about how he came to be? We all know the story of the cunning curmudgeon known as the Grinch. ![]()
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