# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/helen-palmer-geisel
# Generated: 2026-09-02T07:02:28.936Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/helen-palmer-geisel"
name: "Helen Palmer Geisel"
slug: "helen-palmer-geisel"
description: "Helen Marion Palmer Geisel, known professionally as Helen Palmer, was an American children's writer, editor, and philanthropist. She was a co-founder and vice president of Beginner Books, and was married to fellow writer Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, from 1927 until her death. Her best-known books include Do You Know What I'm Going to Do Next Saturday?, I Was Kissed by a Seal at the Zoo, Why I Built the Boogle House, and A Fish Out of Water. She died by suicide on October 23, 1967."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Helen_Palmer_1924_Passport_Photo.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1898-09-11"
deathDate: "1967-10-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.771659324522761
  historical:           5.717154666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump