Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll, born in north-west England in 1832, was the third of 11 children. At the age of 18, he enrolled at the University of Oxford, where he would remain first as a student and later as a researcher and teacher. Carroll’s work has been translated into more than 170 languages. In 1864 he published his most famous book: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. This work was very successful, as was its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass. When Carroll died in 1898, he had sold almost 250,000 copies of his works, an astonishing number for the time. Apart from being a writer, Carroll was also a gifted mathematician, logician and photographer.