George MacDonald (the pen-name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson); it was MacDonald's advice, and the enthusiastic reception of "Alice" by MacDonald's many sons and daughters, that convinced Carroll to submit "Alice" for publication. Carroll, one of the finest Victorian photographers, also created photographic portraits of several of the MacDonald children. MacDonald was also friends with John Ruskin, and served as a go-between in Ruskin's long courtship with Rose La Touche. While in America he was befriended by Longfellow and Walt Whitman. As hinted above, MacDonald's use of fantasy as a literary medium for exploring the human condition greatly influenced a generation of notable
Charles Webb (author) Charles Webb (author) Charles Richard Webb (born June 9, 1939) is the author of several novels, and is mainly known for his most famous work, "The Graduate" (1963), which was made into a film of the same name (1967). Webb was born in San Francisco, California. He grew up in affluent Pasadena, California. He attended Chandler School, Midland School in Los Olivos, California, and graduated from Williams College in 1961. He declined an inheritance from his father, a wealthy doctor. Webb lived for several years in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. As of 2006, Webb had been with his long-term partner Eve