Lewis Carroll is the pen name for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He was born in Cheshire, England and lived most of his life in Oxford where he worked at Christ Church College as a scholar and teacher. He was a mathematician, photographer and inventor as well as the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Alice Liddell was the daughter of his friend and is believed to be the Alice that he based the book on. Carroll also wrote the nonsensical poems, "Jabberwocky" and "The Hunting of the Snark".