#76of 111Best Authors
Influence6th pct
Popularity93rd pct
Peak-work percentile in the canon.
In their words
Famous Quotes
“we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.”
“'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe.”
“Curiouser and curiouser!”
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!”
Biography
About Lewis Carroll
English writer, mathematician, and logician (born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. His nonsensical, logic-bending fantasies revolutionized children's literature and influenced surrealism, logic, and linguistics. He was also an Oxford mathematics lecturer and pioneering photographer.