Lewis Carroll is a pseudonym of the English writer and mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. The name Lewis Carroll came from taking his real name and using the Latin translation. Charles Dodgson was born on January 27th, 1832, becoming the third born of eleven children to a clergyman. In 1854 he graduated from Christ Church College in Oxford England. Dodgson remained at the school to teach math and writing, later to take the "deacon's orders". He was never made a priest though. This could have been due to the fact that he had a stammer and partially because he discovered he only did it because he wanted to be like his father. Dodgson instead became passionate about photography. He focused a lot of his time photographing children that he would later use as inspiration for his most famous character "Alice". He loved to photograph the Dean of Christ church college's children, and became very close with their family. Always an entertainer, he would tell stories, draw pictures, tell jokes, anything to get a laugh. He would later use these as starting points for his works. Dodgson was very private about his life when he was alive, and even in his death. Many of his personal papers and journals were destroyed when he passed away in January of 1898. Because of this, there are many rumors and myths about his life, some of these include: drug addict, socially inept, unhealthy interest in children. All we know of Dodgson we learn from " The Life Letters of Lewis Carroll" which was published posthumous by his nephew. Dodgson, better know as Lewis Carroll was never to be married. He has confused many historians and biographers. It is almost as if Lewis Carroll was the alter ego of Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.
Sources:
http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ca-Ch/Carroll-Lewis.html
http://www.insite.com.br/rodrigo/text/lewis_carroll.html
http://www.online-literature.com/carroll/
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