The Grimms were a couple of German brothers who went around collecting folktales in the early 19th century. Many of the folktales that they published became very popular children's stories, and we...

Lewis Carroll was the penname of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who brought us Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This guy was mathematician who studied at the University of Oxford—wouldn't have nabbed...

For most of his life, C.S. Lewis was an academic, working at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge and focusing on Renaissance and Medieval Literature. Whodathunkit, right?Lewis was born in Belf...

Roald Dahl definitely didn't have the happily-ever-after life depicted in most of his stories. His childhood was pretty terrible, as he spent most of his time in boarding schools in England where h...

Theodor Seuss Geisel wasn't actually a doctor—sorry to break it to you. Though he began to study for a Ph.D. at Oxford University, he never completed it and instead returned to the U.S. to pursue...