Lewis Carroll was a British writer, mathematician, and photographer born in 1832. One day in 1862 while boating with three sisters, he began telling them a story without rhyme or reason that became Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The book quickly became a cult classic in Victorian England. Carroll also wrote other works but was known for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which included drawings by the author and told the original story of Alice's trip to Wonderland before it was modified for commercial publication.