* Lewis Carroll featured a surrealistic version of the game in the popular children's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ; a hedgehog was used as the ball, a flamingo the mallet, and playing cards as the hoops.

Henry Mayhew was the great-grandfather of Audrey Mayhew Allen ( b. 1870 ), author of a number of children's stories published in various periodicals, and of a book Gladys in Grammarland, an imitation of Lewis Carroll's Wonderland books.

Lewis ' exploration of themes not usually present in children's literature, such as religion as well as the book's perceived treatment of issues including race and gender, has caused some controversy.

Fellow children's author Roger Lancelyn Green first referred to the series as The Chronicles of Narnia, in March 1951, after he had read and discussed with Lewis his recently completed fourth book The Silver Chair, originally entitled Night under Narnia.

Lewis later suggested that the experience gave him a new appreciation of children and in late September he began a children's story on an odd sheet of paper which has survived as part of another manuscript:

* May 4 – Alice Pleasance Liddell, inspiration for the children's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll ( d. 1934 )

Lewis read Edith Nesbit's children's books as a child and was greatly fond of them.

Records Karloff made for the children's market included Three Little Pigs and Other Fairy Stories, Tales of the Frightened ( volume 1 and 2 ), Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories and, with Cyril Ritchard and Celeste Holm, Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes, and Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark.

Noted author and mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ( Lewis Carroll ) called the Vigenère cipher unbreakable in his 1868 piece " The Alphabet Cipher " in a children's magazine.

Throughout his entire career, Taylor has produced albums for countless bands and artists including Randy Stonehill, Riki Michele, Tom Howard, The Altar Boys, Crystal Lewis and Wild Blue Yonder, Jacob's Trouble, Scaterd Few, Deliverance, Mercy River, Starflyer 59's Leave Here a Stranger, Fine China's You Make Me Hate Music, Mortal, Poor Old Lu, Tourniquet, Rich Young Ruler, Derri Daugherty, an assortment of children's records including the MegaMouth series and the Harry Whodunit?

* The Road From Home, a children's book by David Kherdian, recognized by the 1979 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award

* Lewis Carroll ( real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ; 1832 – 1898 ), renowned children's and fantasy author

One of his assignments there was to help produce a children's puppet show hosted by Shari Lewis.

* Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze

* Carnegie Medal for children's literature: C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle

Shari Lewis ( January 17, 1933 – August 2, 1998 ) was an American ventriloquist, puppeteer, and children's television show host, most popular during the 1960s and 1990s.

Lewis then hosted several New York children's series over the balance of the decade.

When Lewis appeared before Congress in 1993 to testify in favor of protections for children's television, Lamb Chop was granted permission to speak.

Lewis later suggested that the experience gave him a new appreciation of children and in late September he began a children's story on an odd sheet which has survived as part of another manuscript:

In August 1948, during the visit of the American writer Chad Walsh, Lewis vaguely talked about completing a children's book which he had begun " in the tradition of E. Nesbit ".

After the meal, Lewis read two chapters from his new children's story to Green.

He is also the author of the children's book, The Frightful Food Feud, and has edited, among other books, The Pooh Sketchbook and The Pooh Book of Quotations and The Wisdom of C. S. Lewis.

Gilbert Lewis ( born April 6, 1941 ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) is an American actor who is best known for playing The King of Cartoons in the first season of the 1986 children's show, Pee-wee's Playhouse.

Among the more influential scientists have been Harold Gulliksen ( whose book, " Theory of Mental Tests ," helped codify classical test theory ); Frederic Lord ( Item Response Theory ); Samuel Messick, ( modern validity theory ); Robert Linn ( currently known for testing and educational policy ); Norman Frederiksen ( performance assessment ); Ledyard Tucker ( test analysis, including inventing the " Angoff Method " of standard setting ); Donald Rubin ( missing data and causal modeling from observational data ); Karl Joreskog ( structural equation modeling and confirmatory factor analysis ); Paul Holland ( differential item functioning, test equating, causal modeling ); John Carroll ( language testing and cognitive psychology ); Michael Lewis ( infant cognitive, social, and emotional development ); Irving Sigel ( children's cognitive development ); Herman Witkin ( cognitive and learning styles ); K. Patricia Cross ( adult education ); Samuel Ball ( an evaluation researcher who documented the positive educational effects of Sesame Street ); and David Rosenhan ( known for the Rosenhan experiment, which challenged the validity of psychiatric diagnosis ).

* 1948 – Lewis Black, American comedian, author, and actor

* 1950 – Lewis Shiner, American sci-fi / fantasy author

* 1832 – Lewis Carroll, English author ( d. 1898 )

Paul Allen edited a two-volume history of the Lewis and Clark expedition that was published in 1814, in Philadelphia, but without mention of the actual author, banker Nicholas Biddle.

* Lewis Nordan, author

Modernists explicitly of ' the right ' include Salvador Dalí, Wyndham Lewis, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, the Dutch author Menno ter Braak and others.

Her mother, born Marcia Kaye Vilensky, the daughter of a Lithuanian Jewish father and a Russian-Romanian Jewish mother ; is an author who uses the name Marcia Lewis.

* Lewis Carroll, author, mathematician and puzzlist

Celebrated traditional Southern chef and author Edna Lewis wrote a series of books between 1972 and 2003, including A Taste of Country Cooking ( Alfred A. Knopf, 1976 ) where she weaves stories of her childhood in Freetown, Virginia into her recipes for " real Southern food ".

C. S. Lewis, friend of Tolkien ( and later author of The Chronicles of Narnia between 1949 – 1964 ), writing in The Times reports:

Lewis's diverse sources for this work include the works of St. Augustine, Dante Aligheri, John Milton, John Bunyan, Emanuel Swedenborg and Lewis Carroll as well as the American science-fiction author whom Lewis mentions in his preface whose name he had forgotten.

* Sheldon Vanauken, author and C. S. Lewis confidante

** Robert Lewis Taylor, American author ( b. 1912 )

* November 29 – C. S. Lewis, British author ( d. 1963 )

* January 27 – Lewis Carroll, English author ( d. 1898 )

Lewis " Lew " Wallace ( April 10, 1827February 15, 1905 ) was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, territorial governor and statesman, politician and author.

Similarly, an author who writes both fiction and non-fiction ( such as the mathematician and fantasy writer Charles Dodgson, who wrote as Lewis Carroll ) may use a pseudonym for fiction writing.

" In his seminal, contemporaneous work, " The Hippie Trip ", author Lewis Yablonsky notes that those who were most respected in hippie settings were the spiritual leaders, the so-called " high priests " who emerged during that era.

The most well-known text associated with his print shop was the flawed first edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, printed by Oxford at the expense of its author Lewis Carroll ( Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ) in 1865.

There have been a number of notable Old Rugbeians including the purported father of the sport of Rugby William Webb Ellis, the inventor of Australian rules football Tom Wills, the war poets Rupert Brooke and John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, author and mathematician Lewis Carroll, poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold, the author and social critic Salman Rushdie ( who said of his time there: " Almost the only thing I am proud of about going to Rugby school was that Lewis Carroll went there too.