Who was Charles Dodgson's pseudonym?

• A. J.M. Barrie
• B. George Eliot
• C. Mark Twain
• D. Lewis Carroll

Answer: (D)

Writers sometimes publish under a different name, a practice called using a pseudonym, to create a separate literary persona or to publish different kinds of writing more freely. Charles Dodgson was a mathematician at Oxford, and he became famous for his children's books and poems under a different name: Lewis Carroll. The name graced timeless works like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the famous poem Jabberwocky, shaping how readers know him. The real name appears in academic contexts, but the beloved stories are credited to Lewis Carroll. The other names listed belong to different authors, not to Dodgson’s chosen pen name. So the pseudonym in question is Lewis Carroll.