Lewis Carroll

born

in Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, England, The United Kingdom 

January 27, 1832

died

December 14, 1898

gender

male

genre

Children's Books, Poetry, Literature & Fiction

influences

Edward Lear Leibniz, George MacDonald, Jonathan Swift

About this author

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The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer.

His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glassas well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense.

Oxford scholar, Church of England Deacon, University Lecturer in Mathematics and Logic, academic author of learned theses, gifted pioneer of portrait photography, colourful writer of imaginative genius and yet a shy and pedantic man, Lewis Carroll stands pre-eminent in the pantheon of inventive literary geniuses.

He also has works published under his real name.

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