Who Was Lewis Carroll?

by Pam Pollack, Meg Belviso, Who HQ, Joseph J. M. Qiu (Illustrator)

Overview

Meet the man who created Alice, the Mad Hatter, and Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum!

Lewis Carroll is the pen name of Charles L. Dodgson, a mathematician and church deacon, who taught at Oxford University. He was inspired to write his best known works, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, by one of the Dean's daughters, Alice Liddell. The books were hugely successful and brought Carroll wide acclaim, especially for the nonsense poems "Jabberwocky" and The Hunting of the Snark.

Children and adults continue to be delighted by the fantasy of the Alice stories, which have been the basis of plays and movies since their publication in Victorian England during the 1860s and 1870s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780448488677
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	10/03/2017
Series:	Who Was? Series
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	342,197
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Pamela Pollack and Meg Belviso are authors of several books in this series, including Who Is George Lucas?, Who Was Alfred Hitchcock?, and Who Was Susan B. Anthony?

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