Who wrote 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?

Lewis Carroll wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. First published in 1865 by Macmillan, the children's novel follows Alice after she falls through a rabbit hole into a dreamlike world filled with talking animals, impossible rules, and memorable figures such as the Cheshire Cat and the Mad Hatter.

Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematician and lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford. The story began during a boating trip on July 4, 1862, when Carroll entertained the three Liddell sisters with an adventure about a girl named Alice. Alice Liddell later recalled asking him to write the tale down, and Carroll developed the handwritten manuscript into the published book.

A common mix-up is naming John Tenniel, who created the original illustrations; he was the illustrator, not the author. The book is also often shortened to Alice in Wonderland, though that is not its original title. Carroll published the sequel Through the Looking-Glass in 1871.