Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
(1832-1898), English author, mathematician, and photographer. One
of eleven children of a scholarly country parson, he studied
mathematics at Oxford, obtained a university post, and then was
ordained as a deacon but found true success with his masterpiece,
Alice's Adventures Under Ground, now known as Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland, which originated as a story told to a young friend,
Alice Liddell, during a boating trip on the Thames. Among his other
works are Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There,
The Hunting of the Snark, and Jabberwocky.
Alison Larkin was born in Washington, DC, adopted at six weeks old
by British parents, and raised in England and Africa. After
graduating from Royal Holloway College, London University, and the
Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, she became a playwright and
classical actress on the British stage. Then, at twenty-eight, she
found her birth mother, who was living in Bald Mountain, Tennessee.
The experience turned her into a stand-up comic. She was soon
headlining at the Comic Strip in New York and the Comedy Store in
Los Angeles, while maintaining her theatrical career. She also
spent three years under a studio development contract to star in
her own sitcom with ABC, CBS, and Jim Henson Productions. Her
unusually wide range of voices can be heard in cartoons and movies,
from work by James Cameron and Robert Altman to Pocahontas and The
Wonder Pets. The audiobook of The English American, narrated by
Alison, won an AudioFile Earphones Award. She has narrated over
thirty audi books and lives in the Berkshires, western
Massachusetts, with her husband and two children.
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