Author Fun Facts: Lewis Carroll

Hey Everyone!

It’s that time to do another one of my author fun facts posts! Today’s author is none other than the author of Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll. I don’t know about you, but I don’t know that much about this author. I decided to do Lewis Carroll because I love Alice in Wonderland, and I wanted to learn more about him. These posts are meant to educate you on authors that you may not know a lot or anything about.

Let’s get this list of facts started:

His real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
He invented a way to allow people to write in the dark
Most of his life he had a stutter
The do-do in Alice in Wonderland he created based off of him
He wrote 11 books about math
Someone actually believed he could be the serial killer Jack the Ripper
He taught math at Oxford University
He was born on January 27, 1832
He suffered from chronic migraines, and epilepsy, stammering, partial deafness, and ADHD
His inspiration for the Cheshire Cat came from cheese molds
He basically collected microscopes
In Alice in Wonderland he infused logic and word puzzles