Brief Biography of Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll, whose real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was born into a family of preachers in Cheshire, England. He followed in his father's footsteps and became an Anglican deacon. Carroll excelled in school but struggled socially, so he matriculated to Oxford University, where he received a first-class mathematics degree and went on to become a professor. In his fiction, his dexterity with numbers led to the wordplay and riddles for which he became famous. He used his teaching and amusing abilities to make friends with children like Alice Liddell, who served as inspiration for the protagonist of Alice in Wonderland. In 1881, he retired from teaching to devote his time to writing. The Alice stories had begun to gain a lot of popularity by this time. Before dying at the age of sixty-six, he created many more stories with the same fascinating use of language and other kid protagonists.