It seems that Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was very keen to keep his fictional work separate from his real and professional life. He never publicly acknowledged that he was also Lewis Carroll and even...
Lewis Carroll is the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 - 14 January 1898), a lecturer in mathematics at Oxford University and a church deacon who wrote Alice's Adventures in...
Lewis Carroll became famous by writing Alice in Wonderland. I don't know what story he told, but the first time he told any of his stories was on a boating trip. :-)
Lewis Carroll was British and lived in England his whole life, so the American Civil War didn't have much impact on him. When the war started in 1861, Carroll was a lecturer in mathematics at Oxford...