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About the Author: CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON, best known by his pseudonym, LEWIS CARROLL, was born in the village of Daresbury, England, on January 27, 1832. The eldest boy in a family of 11 children, Carroll was rather adept at entertaining himself and his siblings. His father, a clergyman, raised them in the rectory. As a boy, Carroll excelled in mathematics and won many academic prizes. At age 20, he won a scholarship to Oxford. There he was a lecturer in mathematics and an avid photographer. He wrote essays, political pamphlets and poetry. Carroll loved to entertain children, and it was Alice Liddell who inspired he most famous stories. During an afternoon picnic with Alice and her two sisters, Carroll told the first version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. When Alice arrived home, she exclaimed that he must write the story down for her. He fulfilled the small girl's request, and the story fell into the hands of the novelist Henry Kingsley, who urged Carroll to publish it. The book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was released in 1865. It gained steady popularity, and as a result, Carroll wrote the sequel, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1871). By the time of his death, Alice had become the most popular children's book in England, and by 1932 it was one of the most popular in the world. Shortly before his 66th birthday, Lewis Carroll caught a severe case of influenza, which led to pneumonia. He died on January 14, 1898, leaving an enigma behind him. (Reprinted from Biography.com)