About the Author

Great, now I have to write about the author. So...he was born in 1812 to a poor family in Portsmouth, England. His father was thrown into prison at an early age, so he had to move there and spent much of his time working in a factory instead of going to school. During his time there he saw the terrible conditions of people, which inspired him to write the Pickwick Papers in 1836, which were often satirical short stories in the newspaper. He became famous because of this and wrote many more books, most of which dealt with problems in society. His most famous books are A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield and Oliver Twist. Some of his books were even read by Queen Victoria.

He married Catherine Hogarth in 1836 and had 9 children with her. He visited America a lot, but during most of his life he lived in Gad's Hill Place in Kent, a place where he had dreamed of buying as a child. Dickens was also involved in the Staplehurst Rail Crash in 1865, and he was luckily in the only car that didn't go over the cliff and survived. He died in 1870 of a stroke in his home and he was buried in Westminster Abbey.

Thanks for reading. :)

This is him sometime in the 1850s.