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.
Seuss was Theodor Geisel's middle name, and also his mother's maiden name (Henrietta Seuss Geisel). Geisel drew cartoons for the newspaper while attending Dartmouth College, and always signed them Seuss. Some of his other pseudonyms were Theo LeSieg, Rosetta Stone and Theophrastus Seuss.