Alan milne biography
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Alan Alexander Milne
A.A. Milne () worked as an essayist, a playwright, a poet, and an adult novelist, in addition to his important contribution as an author of juvenile books. Although he attempted to excel in all literary genres, he was master of Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh. His nature defied labels, such as "writer of children's literature," even though that was where he excelled.
Modern-day readers might be surprised to learn that A.A. Milne did more than just write children's books, specifically the four books which remain popular today: When We Were Very Young, Winnie-the-Pooh, Now We Are Six, and The House at Pooh Corner. Milne jumped from one creative venture to another, reluctant to concentrate his attention in one field for any extended period of time.
Educated in Style
Born Alan Alexander Milne on January 18, , in London, England, he was the youngest child of Sarah Maria Heginbotham and John Vine Milne. His father was the headmaster at Henley House, a private school, where Milne received his early education. He shared a special kinship with his brother, Kenneth, and they remained close throughout their lives. At the age of nine, Milne and Kenneth, along with a childhood friend, dramatized a novel they had read. This exercise awakened his love
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Alan Alexander Milne was the famous writer of the much-loved Winnie the Pooh stories and is more generally known as A. A. Milne. Born in Kilburn, London in he spent his formative years living in a small independent school which his father, John Vine Milne ran. A. A. was fortunate to have visionary novelist H. G. Wells as one of his teachers there. He went on to study at Trinity College, Cambridge after studying first at Westminster School. Up at Cambridge his writing talents blossomed and was soon noticed by the humorous magazine “Punch”. He was invited to contribute whimsical articles and poems at first and later was appointed assistant editor.
Like most writers, Milne numbered among his friends others in the same profession but there was an unfortunate incident during the Second World War when he and the author P. G. Wodehouse fell out over Wodehouse’s broadcasts from Germany. P.G. had been captured in France by Nazis and they used him as a propaganda tool to make broadcasts to the British people. In common with his written works, the broadcasts were in a “sending up of the Germans” style but many, Milne amongst them, took exception to this form of co-operation with the enemy. It was a friendship lost but P. G. got his own back to some degree by parodying some of