Lewis Carroll

Born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson in 1832, he spent much of his adult life at Christ Church, Oxford, where he worked as a mathematics lecturer. Alongside his academic life, he wrote poems, stories, and playful puzzles under the pen name Lewis Carroll.

He became famous with Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 1865 and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass in 1871. Those books, with their unforgettable characters, jokes, riddles, and dream logic, helped reshape children’s literature and have never gone out of print.

He was also an accomplished photographer, especially in the 1850s and 1860s, and his interest in images, performance, and exact detail can be felt throughout his writing. Carroll died in 1898, but his work still delights readers with its mix of fantasy, logic, and comic invention.