Lewis Wallace was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, and author from Indiana. Among his novels and biographies, Wallace is best known for his historical adventure story, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880), a bestselling novel that has been called "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century."
Lewis Carroll, oikealta nimeltään Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, oli englantilainen matemaatikko, kirjailija, Anglikaanisen kirkon diakoni ja harrastelijavalokuvaaja. Hän työskenteli Oxfordin yliopistossa matematiikan lehtorina.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet and mathematician. His most notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871). He was noted for his facility with word play, logic, and fantasy. His poems Jabberwocky (1871) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) are classified in the genre of literary nonsense.
Lewis Carroll, pseudonimo di Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, è stato uno scrittore, poeta, fotografo, logico, matematico e prete anglicano britannico dell'età vittoriana.
È celebre soprattutto per i due romanzi Le avventure di Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie e Attraverso lo specchio e quel che Alice vi trovò, opere che sono state apprezzate da una straordinaria varietà di lettori, dai bambini ai grandi scienziati e pensatori.
Lewis Carroll, nom de plume de Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, est un romancier, essayiste, photographe amateur et professeur de mathématiques britannique, né le 27 janvier 1832 à Daresbury (Cheshire) et mort le 14 janvier 1898 à Guildford (Surrey). Il est principalement connu pour son roman Les Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles (1865) et sa suite De l'autre côté du miroir (1871).
Lewis Falley Allen was an American farmer, businessman, politician and prominent Buffalonian. Allen was the uncle-in-law of President Grover Cleveland and is credited with introducing Cleveland to the practice of law and politics, therefore paving the way for his eventual presidency.
Lewis Henry Morgan was a pioneering American anthropologist and social theorist who worked as a railroad lawyer. He is best known for his work on kinship and social structure, his theories of social evolution, and his ethnography of the Iroquois. Interested in what holds societies together, he proposed the concept that the earliest human domestic institution was the matrilineal clan, not the patriarchal family.
Lewis Saul Benjamin was an English author, born into a Jewish family in London, England and educated privately in England and Germany. From 1896 to 1901 he was known as an actor, though part of his time even then was devoted to literature.
His publications include:In the World of Mimes: A Theatrical Novel (1902)
The Thackeray Country (1905)
Victorian Novelists (1906)
Bath under Beau Nash (1907)
The Beau of the Regency (1908)
William Makepeace Thackeray: A Biography (1909)
King Edward VII: His Life & Reign. The Record of a Noble Career
The Life and Letters of Laurence Sterne
The Life and Letters of William Cobbett
An edition of Thackeray's works
