Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), a shy mathematics lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford, who was also a deacon, a pioneering photographer and the author of books on logic. On a boat trip in July 1862 he made up a story for the three daughters of the college dean, and ten-year-old Alice Liddell asked him to write it down.
The result, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, followed by Through the Looking-Glass and The Hunting of the Snark, changed children's books forever with nonsense, wordplay and logic games that delight adults as much as children.