Lewis Carroll

Born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson in 1832, Lewis Carroll was an English author, mathematician, logician, photographer, and Anglican deacon. He spent much of his adult life at Oxford, where he taught mathematics, while writing the imaginative books and poems that made his pen name famous.

He is especially remembered for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871), stories loved for their dreamlike logic, wordplay, and unforgettable characters. He also wrote The Hunting of the Snark, another classic of literary nonsense.

Carroll died in 1898, but his work never really left print. His stories continue to delight children and adults alike because they are funny on the surface and full of clever ideas underneath.