Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was a British author and scholar, 1832-1898, who went by the pen name Lewis Carroll. He is known for writing Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass. He based the main character after a little girl that he knew, Alice Liddell. In addition to writing books, he wrote essays, political pamphlets, and poetry. He was a lecturer of mathematics and a photographer. By the time he died, Alice had become the most popular book in England, and by 1932, the most popular in the world.