What is the real name of the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?

The real name of the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.

Dodgson was an English author, mathematician, photographer, and academic at Christ Church, Oxford. He published children's fiction and poetry under the pen name Lewis Carroll, which became far more famous than his birth name.

The pseudonym was created through a linguistic transformation. Charles became the Latin Carolus, while Lutwidge became Ludovicus; these forms were anglicized and rearranged into “Lewis Carroll.” The name first appeared in print in 1856.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was published in 1865, with illustrations by John Tenniel. A frequent mistake is treating Lewis Carroll as Dodgson's legal name or confusing Tenniel, who illustrated the book, with its author. Dodgson also wrote Through the Looking-Glass and the nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark.