Lewis Carroll

  To start off, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born January 27, 1832, in Daresbury, Cheshire, England.  Throughout his lifetime he was a English logician, mathematician, photographer, and novelist.  During his earlier years he attended a public school for four years and then went to Christ Church, Oxford.  Because he was a student at Christ Church, he was supposed to remain unmarried.  If Carroll would have gone on to become a priest he could have married, but as it turns out, he was ordained a deacon in the Church of England on December 22, 1861, where holy orders restricted him to remain a bachelor.  Carroll wrote several works, including The Hunting of the Snark, Jabberwocky, and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which became a very popular work.  According to bookrags.com, Carroll was a fussy, reserved, conservative man, who stayed away from the economic, political, and religious problems that troubled Victorian England.  However, he was a cheerful and fun man towards children, hence, his knack for storytelling.  Referring back to his interest in photography, according to wiki, he made several studies of men, women, male children, landscapes, skeletons, dolls, dogs, statues and paintings, and trees.  His studies of nude children have been thought lost for a long time, but six have since surfaced and are now published and available online.   

In Carroll's later years he suffered from migraines and occasional seizures, where he had lost consciousness on two accounts.  After his many success's, Carroll died on January 14, 1898, at the age of 65.

http://www.biography.com/articles/Lewis-Carroll-9239598?part=0 
http://www.bookrags.com/biography/lewis-carroll/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll#Health_challenges