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Carroll, Lewis
     
Carroll, Lewis
(1832-98) a British writer who wrote two very famous children's stories, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. His real name was Charles Dodgson, and he was also a teacher of mathematics at Oxford University.
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