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A Short Biography of A. A. Milne

Author Name:

A. A. Milne

Born As:

Alan Alexander Milne

Other Names:

Born:

18 Jan 1882

Died:

31 Jan 1956




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Writer and Poet                          
Selected Works:

Novels:

Lovers in London - 1905 - Some consider this more of a short story collection; Milne didn't like it and considered The Day's Play as his first book.

Once on a Time - 1917
Mr. Pim - 1921 - A novelisation of his play Mr. Pim Passes By - 1919
The Red House Mystery - 1922
Two People - 1931 - Inside jacket claims this is Milne's first attempt at a novel
Four Days' Wonder - 1933
Chloe Marr - 1946

Non-fiction:

Peace With Honour - 1934
It's Too Late Now: The Autobiography of a Writer - 1939
War With Honour - 1940
Year In, Year Out - 1952 - illustrated by E. H. Shepard

Punch articles:

The Day's Play - 1910
Once a Week - 1914
The Holiday Round - 1912
The Sunny Side - 1921
Those Were the Days - 1929 - selection of Punch pieces from the above four books

Selections of newspaper articles and introductions to books by others:

The Chronicles of Clovis by "Saki" - 1911
Not That It Matters - 1920
By Way of Introduction - 1929

Story collections for children:

Gallery of Children - 1925
Winnie-the-Pooh - 1926 - illustrated by E. H. Shepard
The House at Pooh Corner - 1928 - illustrated by E. H. Shepard
Short Stories

Story collections:

A Table Near the Band - 1950

Poetry:

For the Luncheon Interval - poems from Punch
When We Were Very Young - 1924 - illustrated by E. H. Shepard
Now We Are Six - 1927 - illustrated by E. H. Shepard
Behind the Lines - 1940
The Norman Church - 1948

Plays:

Wurzel-Flummery - 1917
Belinda - 1918
The Boy Comes Home - 1918
Make-Believe - 1918 - a play for children
The Camberley Triangle - 1919
Mr. Pim Passes By - 1919
The Red Feathers - 1920
The Romantic Age - 1920
The Stepmother - 1920
The Truth about Blayds - 1920
The Dover Road - 1921
The Lucky One - 1922
The Artist: A Duologue - 1923
Give Me Yesterday - 1923 - a.k.a. Success in the U.K.
The Great Broxopp - 1923
Ariadne - 1924
The Man in the Bowler Hat: A Terribly Exciting Affair - 1924
To Have the Honour - 1924
Portrait of a Gentleman in Slippers - 1926
Success - 1926
Miss Marlow at Play - 1927
The Fourth Wall or The Perfect Alibi - 1928
The Ivory Door - 1929
Toad of Toad Hall - 1929 - adaptation of The Wind in the Willows
Michael and Mary - 1930
Other People's Lives - 1933 - a.k.a. They Don't Mean Any Harm
Miss Elizabeth Bennett - 1936 - based on Pride and Prejudice
Sarah Simple - 1937
Gentleman Unknown - 1938
The General Takes Off His Helmet - 1939 in The Queen's Book of the Red Cross
The Ugly Duckling - 1946
Before the Flood - 1951

Books on Pooh and Milne:

Crews, Frederick, The Pooh Perplex, Chicago & London, University of Chicago Press, 2003 - 1st ed. 1963
Crews, Frederick, Postmodern Pooh, New York, North Point Press, 2001
Hoff, Benjamin, The Tao of Pooh, New York, Penguin, 1983 
Hoff, Benjamin, The Te of Piglet, New York, Dutton Adult, 1992 
Milne, Christopher Robin and A. R. Melrose - ed., Beyond the World of Pooh: Selections from the Memoirs of Christopher Milne, New York, Dutton, 1998
Thwaite, Ann, A. A. Milne: His Life, New York, Random House, 1990
Tyerman Williams, John, Pooh and the Philosophers: In Which It Is Shown That All of Western Philosophy Is Merely a Preamble to Winnie-The-Pooh, London, Methuen, 1995
Wullschlager, Jackie, Inventing Wonderland: The Lives and Fantasies of Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, J. M. Barrie, Kenneth Grahame and A. A. Milne, New York & Detroit, The Free Press, 1996

Films:

Michael and Mary was adapted to cinema in 1931.                          
Mother Sarah Maria Heginbotham
Father John Vine Milne
Wife Dorothy de Sélincourt, one son, Christopher Robin Milne                          
                          
Christopher Robin is named after Alan Milne's son, and various characters inspired by his son's stuffed animals, most notably the bear named Winnie-the-Pooh. Christopher Robin's bear, originally named "Edward", was renamed "Winnie-the-Pooh" after a Canadian black bear named Winnie - after Winnipeg, which was used as a military mascot in World War I, and left to London Zoo during the war. "The pooh" comes from a swan called "Pooh".

After Milne's death, his widow sold the rights to the Pooh characters to the Walt Disney Company, which has made a number of Pooh cartoon movies, as well as a large amount of Pooh-related merchandise.
A. A. Milne and his family lived at Cotchford Farm where the Rolling Stones' lead guitarist Brian Jones would later live and be found drowned in 1969.