Today is the 177th birthday of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, the writer, logician, mathematician, photographer, and author of the Alice in Wonderland tales.
Read how he came to write the tales; how, by the time of his death in 1898, Alice had become the most popular children's book in England; and how, by the time of his centenary in 1932, it ranked as one of the most popular and perhaps the most famous children's book in the world.
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