annual lecture, which bill was acknowledged not only by the wonderful talk, but because of a book he co-authored with james tatum, the dartmouth classics department on african-american writing and the classical tradition. it s a wonderful book, and the book is also available in the bookstore. i want to begin by asking the members of the audience, how many of you as children had dr. seuss read to you? let me see a show of hands. a good one half. none of us are too old. and how many of you read dr. seuss to your children? almost everyone. dr. seuss is a transgenerational author. he s an author who doesn t just address the children. he addresses the child that never dies and every adult. but when i turn to the daunting task of trying to take hold of the figure who became dr. seuss, i was confronted with a career that had so many different aspects. it was difficult to come up with a line that would begin to do justice to the multiple facets of dr. seuss. and at the same time, giv