Author, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. Dodgson was the eldest son in a family of 11 children, who was adept at writing and making up games to keep his siblings amused. Later, he would apply those skills to entertaining children of his acquaintance, most notably Alice Liddell, for whom he wrote down the story of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. In addition to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Dodgson wrote Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, The Hunting of the Snark, the satirical fairytales Sylvie and Bruno and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, poems, short stories and mathematical works. A prolific photographer who immortalized many celebrities of his age, such as the actress Ellen Terry and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, he is also credited with devising an early version of Scrabble and the means for justifying right margins on a typewriter, among other inventions.