Lewis Carroll

English, 1832–1898

Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), an English author, mathematician, and photographer. His masterworks Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass are landmarks of literary nonsense, blending wordplay, logic puzzles, and surreal imagination into stories that delight both children and adults. Carroll was also a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford.