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'''Lewis Carroll''' was the pen name for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), best known for authoring ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'' and its sequel, ''[[Through the Looking-Glass]]'' (which contains the poem ''[[Jabberwocky]].'') Carroll also wrote the long nonsense poem, ''[[The Hunting of the Snark]].'' In addition to writing these stories and poems under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, Charles Dodgson also was a gifted photographer and a talented mathematician.  
 
'''Lewis Carroll''' was the pen name for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), best known for authoring ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'' and its sequel, ''[[Through the Looking-Glass]]'' (which contains the poem ''[[Jabberwocky]].'') Carroll also wrote the long nonsense poem, ''[[The Hunting of the Snark]].'' In addition to writing these stories and poems under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, Charles Dodgson also was a gifted photographer and a talented mathematician.  
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Carroll, a math teacher, wrote a play about geometry called ''Euclid and His Modern Rivals''.
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Carroll, a math teacher, wrote a play about geometry called ''Euclid and His Modern Rivals''.
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Richard Wallace, a criminologist and historian, wrote a book called ''Jack the Ripper:Light Hearted Friend'' that claimed that Carroll committed the Jack the Ripper murders. Most people have not taken this seriously, though.
     
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