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.
Harlan Ellison, a multiple-award-winning author, has narrated numerous audiobooks, both of his own writing and others, including books by Orson Scott Card, Arthur C. Clarke, Jack Williamson, and Terry Pratchett. His readings have won two "Listen Up" Awards and the Audie® Award in 1999 for Best Solo Narration.