Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, was educated at home in his early childhood. He suffered various illnesses as a child, including a fever that left him deaf in one ear, and a case of whooping cough that left him with a weak chest. He also had a noticeable stammer that would last into adulthood. Dodgson attended Christ Church at Oxford to study mathematics, and after graduation, he began teaching mathematics there. Dodgson achieved major success as a writer with the book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass, but would remain at Christ Church teaching math until illness forced him to stop working in his later years.