ROUND CHARACTER: A round character is depicted with such psychological depth and detail that he or she seems like a real person. The round character contrasts with the flat character, a character who serves a specific or minor literary function in a text, and who may be a stock character or simplified stereotype.
Mini Bio (2). Acclaimed writer Dr. Seuss was born Theodor Geisel in Springfield, Massachusetts on March 2, 1904. After attending Dartmouth College and Oxford University, he began a career in advertising. His advertising cartoons, featuring Quick, Henry, the Flit!, appeared in several leading American magazines.
As a magazine cartoonist, he began signing his work under the mock-scholarly title of âDr. Theophrastus Seussâ in 1927. He shortened that to âDr. Seussâ in 1928. In acquiring his professional pseudonym, he also gained a new pronunciation. Most Americans pronounce the name Soose, and not Zoice. And thatâs how Ted Geisel became Dr. Seuss.