Lewis Carroll: The Worlds of His Alices

This is a very readable biography of Lewis Carroll. It's understandable, it says what is necessary to say and it doesn't drown itself in minutiae. It also has a good number of photos, notes, a biographical timeline and a bibliography.

It covers topics like his past, his photographs, his nude photographs of young girls, why he gave up photography, his relationship to Alice Liddell and the problems he had with her mother, how he tried to keep his private and his public personas totally separate, his illustrations, his poetry, material on The Hunting of the Snark (which I really think is cool), his math books and adaptations of his works.

An excellent biography

Main Index

Main Alice in Wonderland index page