1. Charles Dickens was a famous British writer.2. He was from Portsmouth, a port city in Hampshire, England.3. He was born on the 7th of February in 1812.4. His family moved to London in 1822.5. When he was twelve his father was sent to prison for debts, that was why Charles had to leave school and to start to work.6. He began his career as a writer in 1833.7. He married Catherine Hogarth.8. He had 10 children.9. He wrote \"Great Expectations\", \"Bleak House\", \"The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club\", \"The Battle of Life\". I have read his novel \"Oliver Twist\".10. He died in 1870.11. He is still popular today because his novels are out of time.