Lewis Carroll
English Author of Witty and Absurd Fantasy Tales By Eric SchneiderLewis Carroll was a remarkably clever and inventive writer of fanciful tales.
Known to his friends, family, and peers as Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Lewis Carroll was a remarkably clever and inventive writer of fanciful tales. The son of a British Anglican priest, the ever-inquisitive Carroll pursued a career in mathematics at Christ Church in Oxford during the mid-1800s, but his love of word play and fantasy, as well as his affinity for children, led him to create his Alice stories, which resulted in surprising success and even global recognition. Marked by an uncanny penchant for wit, playfulness, and, naturally, wonder, Carroll's writings revel in the strange and the absurd, and influenced generations of imaginative narratives that followed. Although there has been much speculation about Carroll's preoccupation with kids--particularly Alice's namesake, Alice Liddell--any historical gossip is outweighed by his landmark contribution to literature and popular culture--along with its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has been adapted countless times in various mediums, including comic books, theater, television, and, most notably, film.
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