A.A. Milne

Alan Alexander Milne

• Born: London, England in 1882
• Died: Hartfield, Sussex, England in 1956

A.A. Milne's most famous work was the Winnie the Pooh series. He also wrote some plays and other novels

Awards

• 1958: Lewis Carroll Shelf Award for Winnie the Pooh
• 2006: Winnie the Pooh got a Hollywood Star in honor of his 80th birthday

12 Facts About Milne

The Characters from Winnie the Pooh were based on of the animals that A. A. Milne’s son, Christopher Robin Milne, would play with. The only characters that were imagined were Owl and Rabbit. Along with that, the illustrations for the Hundred Acre Wood’s resembled the Ashdown Forest that the Milne’s lived by

Alan Alexander Milne didn’t like that he was typecast as a “Children’s writer” which led to him feeling unhappy the last years of his life. On top of that, A. A. Milne’s son, Christopher, resented his father.

A. A. Milne played cricket on the English Cricket Team with two other famous authors: Arthur Conan Doyle and J.M. Barrie

A. A. Milne went to Cambridge to study Mathematics. It wasn’t until after he got his degree that he started pursuing writing.

Both Milne and his illustrator, E.H. Shepard, both regretted taking part in the creation of Winnie the Pooh

Even though he was a pacifist, he served in World War 1

In 1952, Milne suffered a severe stroke, so he went into a brain surgery which he survived, but it left him an invalid for the rest of his days

Even though Milne was the author of Winnie the Pooh, his son Christopher Robert, who Christopher Robin was based on, became more famous than his father

One of his teachers as a child was H.G. Wells, the author of War of the Worlds

He wrote and edited at the Granta, a student magazine

He became assistant editor of Punch magazine and while employed there, he wrote 3 novels and 18 screen plays

The rights to Winnie the Pooh were sold to Walt Disney, and Winnie the Pooh became one of their most valuable fictional characters making 6 billion in a year alone

Sources

• Kettler, Sara. "5 Facts on Author A.A. Milne." Biography.com. A&E Networks Television, 18 Jan. 2017. Web. 27 July 2017.
• "A.A. Milne Facts." Softschools.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 July 2017.
• "Awards I've Won." About Me. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 July 2017.

Sources

• Discover the Magical World of Pooh, EMGJ Consulting, www.just-pooh.com/milne.html. Accessed 28 July 2017.
• Ruggeri, Amanda. "BBC - Culture - AA Milne and the Curse of Pooh Bear." BBC - Homepage, BBC,