For the promotion of the release of the award winning middle grade book The Magic Token: A Journey with Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll was on hand with Alice, the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, the Dormouse, and the modern girl heroine, Emma Thomas, from the play based on the book that premiered the last two weekends in January (21, 22, 29, 30), 2005.
1. Born Charles Dodgson in Daresbury in Cheshire, England on January 27, 1832, he was the third child and eldest boy among 11 siblings (7 girls and 4 boys). 2. He was a British author, writer, philosopher, mathematician, logician, reverend of the Anglican order, and photographer. 3. As an author, he was most famous for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, and the comic poem The Hunting of the Snark. 4. He stood six foot tall and was slender with curly brown hair and blue eyes 5. An attack of whooping cough early in his life left him with poor hearing in his right ear. 6. A stammer (more like a hesitation) followed him from early childhood throughout his entire life. It must have been hardly noticeable because adults he dealt with hardly noticed it, whereas Lewis was acutely aware and sensitive to it.
7. Lewis taught mathematics at Christ Church in Oxford. To
him, his acedemic career was only a means to an end ... to make
his mark on the world as an author or philosopher.
8. Lewis submitted his best known work in 1862 under the title
Alice's Adventures Under Ground to Macmillan the publisher.
Alternative titles considered by the publisher were
Alice Among the Fairies and Alice's Golden Hour.
9. He died suddenly of pneumonia on January 14, 1898.
10. Lewis named his character Alice after Alice Pleasance Liddell,
a little girl he first told the story to.
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