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.
It was his pen name much like any pen name used by any author. Seuss was his mother's maiden name. His full name was Theodor Seuss Geisel. Ted credited his mother with both his ability and desire to create the rhymes for which he became so well known.