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AA Milne is the author of the beloved Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin stories that have captivated young and old over the last century.[1]
Alan Alexander Milne was born 18 January 1882 in Hampstead, Middlesex, England to John Vine Milne and Sarah Heginbotham.[2][3][1]
In 1901, 19-year-old Alan A Milne of St John's Wood, London, undergraduate Cambridge, was registered as a visitor of his uncle, Alexander Milne's (b. 1851) household in Hastings Holy Trinity, Sussex, where his uncle was the Principal of a boy's private school.[4]
AA attended Trinity College at Cambridge, studying mathematics[5], and entered the world of journalism after graduating in 1903.[3] He ascended to the position of assistant editor of Punch, a humor magazine in Britain, by 1906.[3][5] He was still working as a journalist in 1911, living at home with his parents in Steeple Bumpstead, Suffolk, England.[6]
AA served in World War I.[3] He participated in the Battle of the Somme.[5] He fell ill later, and was unable to be on active duty. It was then that he was asked to write for a secret propaganda unit, MI7b, in 1917.[5] AA was a pacifist, despite his participation in the war, and wasn't fond of even the work he did for the MI7b.[5]
Alan Alexander married Dorothy de Selincourt in 1913.[3] Their only child was Christopher Robin.[3]
AA's first book of verse appeared to the public in 1924.[3] "When We Were Very Young" was the world's introduction to the Hundred Acre Wood, Winnie the Pooh, and Christopher Robin, Milne's character based on his own son, Christopher.[3] He went on to publish three more tomes full of the fantasy world of the young boy.[3] He collaborated on them with his Punch cohort, EH Shepard, who "decorated" the books.[7] Though they were what brought him his notoriety, AA regretted them somewhat because his other work was overshadowed.[7][5]
Christopher Robin suffered as much as his father, as the character was indeed named after him, the illustrations were exact copies of his boyhood self, and even the other characters, save for Owl and Rabbit, were modeled after his own stuffed toys.[5]
Most people aren't aware that AA was also a playwright, novelist, nonfiction writer, and journalist.[7][5] Over the course of his life he wrote his four children's books, seven novels, five nonfiction books, and 34 plays.[7] His most popular plays were "Mr. Pim Passes By" and "Other People's Lives".[3] He started writing the plays during World War I, producing one a year from 1919 to 1928.[3]
Alan Alexander Milne died 31 January 1956 at home in Hartfield, Sussex, England.[3][1] His health had been in decline since October of 1952.[3] He was cremated.[8]
AA Milne's legacy lives on, as his stories of Winnie -the- Pooh and friends move from the page to children's entertainment, generation after generation falling in love with his "willy, nilly, silly old bear."
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Wikidata: Item Q207036, en:Wikipedia
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