Alice I Have Been / Melanie Benjamin / 351 p.

Alice Liddell will always been known as the basis for the book character "Alice" in Alice in Wonderland.  This book, however, focuses on the "real" Alice and her life story; from her childhood in Oxford where she was friends with Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) to her adult life with her husband and three sons.  Author Melanie Benjamin does an excellent job of creating a fictionalized account of Alice Liddell's real life, especially when she only had a few actual facts to go on.    A quick read through Wikipedia shows that the author covers all of the major events in Alice's life that are historically known.   The author also keeps Alice's and Mr. Dodgson's relationship a bit muddled; was it innocent? inappropriate?  Since the families never discussed it publicly the world will never know; but I think the author does a good job laying out the facts and letting the audience draw their own conclusions.