Lewis Carroll – 19th-century English writer, author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, classics of children’s and absurdist literature. A mathematician and logician, he devised paradoxes and wordplay. His works shaped literature, philosophy, and popular culture.
📚 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was inspired by a real girl – Alice Liddell. 📖 Carroll lectured in mathematics at Oxford under his real name, Charles Dodgson. 🎲 He adored puzzles and invented his own logical games. 📸 A keen photographer, he captured portraits of friends and fellow writers. 🖋️ His poem Jabberwocky is a landmark of nonsense verse. 🎭 The Alice books have been adapted for stage, film, and ballet countless times. 📚 He corresponded with children, whom he considered his most genuine readers. 🧮 In mathematics he wrote treatises on algebra and logic, though often deemed overly complex. 🌍 The phrase “rabbit hole” became a metaphor for surreal journeys. 😲 Curious: he suffered from a stammer and avoided public speaking. 😂 Funny: he loved puns so much he even left riddles for himself in his diaries.