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.