Beddor grew up in
Excelsior,
Minnesota. The books are based on a re-imagination of
Lewis Carroll's novel
Alice in Wonderland. The premise of the novel is that the main character Alice in
Alice in Wonderland is real, as is the world of Wonderland, but that Carroll misrepresented the events and made Wonderland seem childlike instead of reflecting the reality of Wonderland. Beddor has written two more books in
The Looking Glass Wars series:
Seeing Redd and
ArchEnemy. A spin-off comic book of this series called
Hatter Madigan was later written by Beddor and
Liz Cavalier, with artwork by
Ben Templesmith. The spin-off focuses on Hatter Madigan, a character in
The Looking Glass Wars. ==References==