Alan Alexander Milne (pronounced /ˈmɪln/) (18 January 1882 –31 January 1956) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear The teddy bear is a stuffed toy bear. They are usually stuffed with soft cotton and have smooth and soft fur. It is an enduring form of a stuffed animal across Great Britain and the United States, often serving the purpose of entertaining children. It is quite common for British and American children to have one among their possessions. In recent Winnie-the-Pooh Winnie-the-Pooh is a fictional bear created by A. A. Milne. The first collection of stories about the character was the book Winnie-the-Pooh , and this was followed by The House at Pooh Corner (1928). Milne also included a poem about the bear in the children’s verse book When We Were Very Young (1924) and many more in Now We Are Six (1927). All and for various children's poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work.
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Life
A. A. Milne was born in Kilburn, London Kilburn is an area of north west London, England, which is divided between three London Boroughs, Brent, Camden, and a small part in Westminster. The main thoroughfare running northwest-southeast is Kilburn High Road, part of the modern A5 road which forms the boundary between the boroughs of Brent and Camden. The road dates back to pre-Roman, to parents John Vine Milne and Sarah Maria (née Heginbotham) and grew up at Henley House School, 6/7 Mortimer Road (now Crescent), Kilburn, London Kilburn is an area of north west London, England, which is divided between three London Boroughs, Brent, Camden, and a small part in Westminster. The main thoroughfare running northwest-southeast is Kilburn High Road, part of the modern A5 road which forms the boundary between the boroughs of Brent and Camden. The road dates back to pre-Roman, a small public school An independent school in the United Kingdom is a school that is not financed by taxpayers or through the taxation system by local or national government, and is instead funded by private sources, predominantly in the form of tuition charges, gifts and long-term charitable endowments, and so not subject to the conditions of "maintained status& run by his father.[1] One of his teachers was H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary. Together with Jules Verne, Wells has been referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction" who taught there in 1889–90.[2] Milne attended Westminster School The Royal College of St. Peter in Westminster, almost always known as Westminster School, is one of Britain's leading independent schools, with the highest Oxbridge acceptance rate of any secondary school or college in the world. Located in the precincts of Westminster Abbey in central London, and with a history stretching back beyond the 12th and Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 160 Fellows .. Trinity considers itself to be "a world-leading academic institution with an outstanding record of education, learning and,[3] where he studied on a mathematics scholarship. While there, he edited and wrote for Granta Granta was founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University as The Granta, edited by R. C. Lehmann . It was started as a periodical featuring student politics, badinage and literary efforts. The name is an older form of what is today called the River Cam, the river that runs through the town. An early editor of the magazine was R. P. Keigwin,, a student magazine.[1] He collaborated with his brother Kenneth and their articles appeared over the initials AKM. Milne's work came to the attention of the leading British humour magazine Punch Punch was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire published from 1841 to 1992 and from 1996 to 2002. Punch material was also collected in book formats from the late nineteenth century, including Pick of the Punch annuals with cartoons and text features, Punch and the War , and A Big Bowl of Punch – which was republished a number of times, where Milne was to become a contributor and later an assistant editor.
Milne joined the British Army in World War I and served as an officer in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers, previously titled the 6th Regiment of Foot and The Royal Warwickshire Regiment, was an infantry regiment of the British Army and later, after a debilitating illness, the Royal Corps of Signals The Royal Corps of Signals is one of the combat support arms of the British Army. It is responsible for installing, maintaining and operating all types of telecommunications equipment and information systems, providing command support to commanders and their headquarters, and conducting electronic warfare against enemy communications. After the war, he wrote a denunciation of war titled Peace with Honour (1934), which he retracted somewhat with 1940's War with Honour.[1][4] During World War II, Milne was one of the most prominent critics of English humour writer P. G. Wodehouse Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (pronounced /ˈwʊdhaʊs/) was an English writer whose body of work includes novels, collections of short stories, and musical theatre. Wodehouse enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and his prolific writings continue to be widely read. Despite the political and social, who was captured at his country home in France by the Nazis Nazism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany. It was a unique variety of fascism that involved biological racism and anti-Semitism. Nazism presented itself as politically syncretic, incorporating policies, tactics and philosophies from right- and left-wing ideologies; in practice, Nazism was a far right form of and imprisoned for a year. Wodehouse made radio broadcasts about his internment, which were broadcast from Berlin. Although the light-hearted broadcasts made fun of the Germans, Milne accused Wodehouse of committing an act of near treason In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more serious acts of betrayal of one's sovereign or nation. Historically, treason also covered the murder of specific social superiors, such as the murder of a husband by his wife . A person who commits treason is known in law as a traitor by cooperating with his country's enemy. Wodehouse got some revenge on his former friend by creating fatuous parodies of the Christopher Robin poems in some of his later stories, and claiming that Milne "was probably jealous of all other writers.... But I loved his stuff."[5]
He married Dorothy "Daphne" de Sélincourt in 1913, and their only son, Christopher Robin Milne, was born in 1920. In 1925, A. A. Milne bought a country home, Cotchford Farm, in Hartfield, East Sussex East Sussex is part of the ancient kingdom of the South Saxons, who established themselves there in the fifth century AD, after the departure of the Romans, although the area had been populated for many thousands of years before then. Archaeological remains are plentiful, especially in the upland areas. The area's position on the coast has also.[6] During World War II, A. A. Milne was Captain of the Home Guard The Home Guard was a defence organisation of the British Army during the Second World War. Operational from 1940 until 1944, the Home Guard — comprising 1.5 million local volunteers otherwise ineligible for military service, usually owing to age, hence the nickname 'Dad's Army' — acted as a secondary defence force, in case of invasion by the in Hartfield & Forest Row, insisting on being plain 'Mr. Milne' to the members of his platoon. He retired to the farm after a stroke and brain surgery in 1952 left him an invalid and by August 1953 "he seemed very old and disenchanted".[7]
Literary career
1903 to 1925
After graduating from Cambridge in 1903, A. A. Milne contributed humorous verse and whimsical essays to Punch,[8][9] joining the staff in 1906 and becoming an assistant editor.[10]
During this period he published 18 plays and 3 novels, including the murder mystery The Red House Mystery The Red House Mystery is a "Whodunit" mystery novel by A. A. Milne, published in 1922. It was Milne's only mystery novel; he is better known for his humour writing, children's stories, and poems (1922). His son was born in August 1920 and in 1924 Milne produced a collection of children's poems When We Were Very Young When We Were Very Young is a book by A. A. Milne containing forty-four poems. It was first published in 1924, and was illustrated by E. H. Shepard. Several of the verses were set to music by Harold Fraser-Simson. The book begins with an introduction entitled Just Before We Begin, which, in part, tells the reader to imagine for themselves who the, which were illustrated by Punch staff cartoonist E. H. Shepard. A collection of short stories for children Gallery of Children, and other stories that became part of the Winnie-the-Pooh books, were first published in 1925.
Looking back on this period (in 1926) Milne observed that when he told his agent that he was going to write a detective story, he was told that what the country wanted from a "Punch humorist" was a humorous story; when two years later he said he was writing nursery rhymes, his agent and publisher were convinced he should write another detective story; and after another two years he was being told that writing a detective story would be in the worst of taste given the demand for children's books. He concluded that "the only excuse which I have yet discovered for writing anything is that I want to write it; and I should be as proud to be delivered of a Telephone Directory con amore as I should be ashamed to create a Blank Verse Tragedy at the bidding of others."[11]
1926 to 1928
The real stuffed toys owned by Christopher Robin Milne and featured in the Winnie-the-Pooh stories. They are on display in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (formerly the New York Public Library Main Branch) in New York.Milne is most famous for his two Pooh books about a boy named Christopher Robin Christopher Robin is a character created by A. A. Milne. After the rights were sold, he has subsequently appeared in Disney cartoons after his son, and various characters inspired by his son's stuffed animals, most notably the bear named Winnie-the-Pooh Winnie-the-Pooh is a fictional bear created by A. A. Milne. The first collection of stories about the character was the book Winnie-the-Pooh , and this was followed by The House at Pooh Corner (1928). Milne also included a poem about the bear in the children’s verse book When We Were Very Young (1924) and many more in Now We Are Six (1927). All. Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed bear, originally named "Edward",[12] was renamed "Winnie-the-Pooh" after a Canadian black bear The American black bear is North America's smallest and most common species of bear. It is a generalist animal, being able to exploit numerous different habitats and foodstuffs. The American black bear is listed by the IUCN as Least Concern, due to the species' widespread distribution and a large global population estimated to be twice that of all named Winnie (after Winnipeg), which was used as a military mascot in World War I, and left to London Zoo London Zoo is the world's oldest scientific zoo. It was opened in London on 27 April 1828, and was originally intended to be used as a collection for scientific study. It was eventually opened to the public in 1847. Today it houses a collection of 755 species of animals, with 15,104 individuals, making it one of the largest collections in the during the war. "The pooh" comes from a swan called "Pooh". E. H. Shepard illustrated the original Pooh books, using his own son's teddy, Growler ("a magnificent bear"), as the model. Christopher Robin Milne's own toys are now under glass in New York.
Winnie-the-Pooh was published in 1926, followed by The House at Pooh Corner The House at Pooh Corner is the second volume of stories about Winnie-the-Pooh, written by A. A. Milne and illustrated by E. H. Shepard. It is notable for the introduction of the character Tigger, who went on to become a prominent figure in the Disney Winnie the Pooh franchise in 1928. A second collection of nursery rhymes, Now We Are Six, was published in 1927. All three books were illustrated by E. H. Shepard. Milne also published four plays in this period. He also "gallantly stepped forward" to contribute a quarter of the costs of dramatising P. G. Wodehouse's A Damsel in Distress.[13]
1929 onwards
The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright (like his idol J. M. Barrie Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. The child of a family of small-town weavers, he was educated in Scotland. He moved to London, where he developed a career as a novelist and playwright. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired him in writing) on both sides of the Atlantic; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery The Red House Mystery is a "Whodunit" mystery novel by A. A. Milne, published in 1922. It was Milne's only mystery novel; he is better known for his humour writing, children's stories, and poems (although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler Raymond Thornton Chandler was an Anglo-American novelist and screenwriter who had an immense stylistic influence upon the modern private detective story, especially in the style of the writing and the attitudes now characteristic of the genre. His protagonist, Philip Marlowe, is, along with Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade, considered synonymous with & for the implausibility of its plot). But once Milne had, in his own words, "said goodbye to all that in 70,000 words" (the approximate length of his four principal children's books), he had no intention of producing any reworkings lacking in originality, given that one of the sources of inspiration, his son, was growing older.
His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play ("God help it") was simply "Christopher Robin grown up...what an obsession with me children are become!".
Even his old literary home, Punch, where the When We Were Very Young verses had first appeared, was ultimately to reject him, as Christopher Milne details in his autobiography The Enchanted Places, although Methuen continued to publish whatever Milne wrote, including the long poem 'The Norman Church' and an assembly of articles entitled Year In, Year Out (which Milne likened to a benefit night for the author).
He also adapted Kenneth Grahame Kenneth Grahame was a British writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon; both books were later adapted into Disney films's novel The Wind in the Willows The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie for the stage as Toad of Toad Hall. The title was an implicit admission that such chapters as Chapter 7, "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn", could not survive translation to the theatre.[citation needed] A special introduction written by Milne is included in some editions of Grahame's novel.
Several of Milne's children's poems were set to music by the composer Harold Fraser-Simson. His poems have been parodied many times, including with the books When We Were Rather Older and Now We Are Sixty.
After Milne's death, his widow sold the rights to the Pooh characters to the Walt Disney Company The Walt Disney Company , also known simply as Disney, is the largest media and entertainment conglomerate in the world. Founded on October 16, 1923 by brothers Walt Disney and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, the company was reincorporated as Walt Disney Productions in 1929. Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader, which has made many Pooh cartoon movies, a Disney Channel television show, as well as Pooh-related merchandise.
Royalties from the Pooh characters paid by Disney to the Royal Literary Fund The Royal Literary Fund is a benevolent fund set up to help published British writers in financial difficulties. It was founded by Reverend David Williams in 1790 and has received bequests and donations, including royal patronage, ever since. Williams was inspired to set up the Fund by the death in debtor's prison of a translator of Plato's, part-owner of the Pooh copyright, provide the income used to run the Fund's Fellowship Scheme, placing professional writers in U.K. universities.
Religious views
Milne did not speak out much on the subject of religion, although he used religious terms to explain his decision, while remaining a pacifist, to join the army: "In fighting Hitler", he wrote, "we are truly fighting the Devil, the Anti-Christ ... Hitler was a crusader against God."[14] His best known comment on the subject was recalled on his death:
"The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief—call it what you will—than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course." [15]
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 Once On A Time is a fairytale created by A. A. Milne (1917)
- Mr. Pim (1921) (A novelisation of his play Mr. Pim Passes By (1919))
- The Red House Mystery The Red House Mystery is a "Whodunit" mystery novel by A. A. Milne, published in 1922. It was Milne's only mystery novel; he is better known for his humour writing, children's stories, and poems (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 (book) (1914)
- The Holiday Round (1912)
- The Sunny Side (1921)
- Those Were the Days (1929) [The four volumes above, compiled]
Newspaper articles and book introductions
- The Chronicles of Clovis by "Saki Hector Hugh Munro , better known by the pen name Saki, was a British writer, whose witty and sometimes macabre stories satirised Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. His tales feature delicately drawn characters and finely judged narratives. "The Open" (1911) [Introduction to]
- 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 The House at Pooh Corner is the second volume of stories about Winnie-the-Pooh, written by A. A. Milne and illustrated by E. H. Shepard. It is notable for the introduction of the character Tigger, who went on to become a prominent figure in the Disney Winnie the Pooh franchise (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 When We Were Very Young is a book by A. A. Milne containing forty-four poems. It was first published in 1924, and was illustrated by E. H. Shepard. Several of the verses were set to music by Harold Fraser-Simson. The book begins with an introduction entitled Just Before We Begin, which, in part, tells the reader to imagine for themselves who the (1924) (illustrated by E. H. Shepard)
- Now We Are Six (1927) (illustrated by E. H. Shepard)
- Behind the Lines (1940)
- The Norman Church (1948)
- 'The Kings Breakfast'
Plays
Milne wrote over 25 plays, including:
- Wurzel-Flummery (1917)
- Belinda (1918)
- The Boy Comes Home (1918)
- Make-Believe (1918) (children's play)
- 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 The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie)
- Michael and Mary (1930)
- Other People's Lives (1933) (a.k.a. They Don't Mean Any Harm)
- Miss Elizabeth Bennet (1936) [based on Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen. First published in 1813, as her second novel, she started it in 1796 as her first persevering effort for publication. She finished the original manuscript by 1797 in Steventon, Hampshire, where she lived with her parents and siblings in the town rectory. Austen originally called the story First]
- 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)
Films
Michael and Mary was adapted to cinema in 1931.
References
- ^ a b c Thwaite, Ann (January 2008). "Milne, Alan Alexander (1882–1956)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography The Dictionary of National Biography is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885. The updated Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) was published on 23 September 2004 in 60 volumes and online. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. doi A digital object identifier is a character string used to uniquely identify an electronic document or other object. Metadata about the object is stored in association with the DOI name and this metadata may include a location, such as a URL, where the object can be found. The DOI for a document is permanent, whereas its location and other metadata:10.1093/ref:odnb/35031.
- ^ "Hampstead: Education". A History of the County of Middlesex 9: 159–169. 1989. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22657. Retrieved 2008-06-09.
- ^ Milne, Alan Alexander in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900 is a biographical register of former members of Cambridge University which was edited by John Venn and his son John Archibald Venn and published by Cambridge University Press in ten, Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Granted Letters Patent by Henry VIII in 1534, it is the world's oldest continually operating book publisher, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
- ^ Capitalization as in the British Library The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and the world's largest library in terms of total number of items. The library is one of the world's major research libraries, holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, patents, databases, Catalogue
- ^ "The Art of Fiction - P.G. Wodehouse" (pdf). The Paris Review. 2005. pp. 18. http://www.theparisreview.com/media/3773_WODEHOUSE.pdf. Retrieved 2008-05-22.
- ^ "Cotchford Farm". National Monument Records. English Heritage English Heritage . is a non-departmental public body of the United Kingdom government with a broad remit of managing the historic built environment of England. It is currently sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Simon Thurley has been chief executive since 2002. http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=618520#. Retrieved 2008-09-29.
- ^ "Letter La Z 5/7/17 - John Middleton Murry John Middleton Murry was an English writer. He was prolific, producing more than 60 books and thousands of essays and reviews on literature, social issues, politics, and religion during his lifetime to Beatrice Elvery". George Lazarus Collection. 1953-08-12. http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/lss/services/mss/collections/online-mss-catalogues/cats/laz4-5cat.html#laz57. Retrieved 2008-06-09.
- ^ Milne, A. A. (August 1904). "Lillian's Loves". Punch, or the London Charivari Punch was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire published from 1841 to 1992 and from 1996 to 2002. Punch material was also collected in book formats from the late nineteenth century, including Pick of the Punch annuals with cartoons and text features, Punch and the War , and A Big Bowl of Punch – which was republished a number of times 127 (24 August 1904): 142.
- ^ Milne, A. A. (November 1904). "Answers to [Fictional] Correspondents". Punch, or the London Charivari 127 (9 November 1904): 333.
- ^ "A.A.Milne". Encyclopedia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9052746/AA-Milne. Retrieved 2008-05-22.
- ^ Milne, Alan Alexander (1926) [1922]. "Introduction (dated April 1926)". The Red House Mystery The Red House Mystery is a "Whodunit" mystery novel by A. A. Milne, published in 1922. It was Milne's only mystery novel; he is better known for his humour writing, children's stories, and poems. London: Methuen Methuen Publishing Ltd is a British publishing house. It was founded in 1889 by Sir Algernon Methuen and began publishing in London in 1892. E. V. Lucas headed the firm from 1924. pp. ix-xii.
- ^ Winnie-the-Pooh at the New York Public Library
- ^ Letter from P. G. Wodehouse dated 26 July 1928 at page 114 in P.G. Wodehouse: A Portrait of a Master by David A. Jasen (2002). ISBN 0825672759.
- ^ Milne, Alan Alexander (1940). War with Honour. London: Macmillan. pp. 16–17.
- ^ Simpson, James B. (1988). Simpson's Contemporary Quotations. Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company is an trade and educational publisher in the United States. The company's headquarters is located in Boston's Back Bay. It publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers and adults, including the Best American. ISBN The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering (SBN) code created by Gordon Foster, now Emeritus Professor of Statistics at Trinity College, Dublin, for the booksellers and stationers W.H. Smith and others in 1966 0-39543-085-2. http://www.bartleby.com/63/93/4393.html.
External links
| Wikisource has original works written by or about: A. A. Milne |
| Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: A. A. Milne |
- Works by A. A. Milne at Project Gutenberg
- Portraits of A. A. Milne in the National Portrait Gallery.
- Essays by Milne at Quotidiana.org
- Milne extract in the Guardian
- Works by or about A. A. Milne in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- A. A. Milne's profile at Just-Pooh.com
- Obituary for Alan Alexander Milne (German)
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| NAME | Milne, A. A. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Milne, Alan Alexander |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Novelist, playwright, poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 18 January 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Scotland |
| DATE OF DEATH | 31 January 1956 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Hartfield, Sussex, England |
Categories: 1882 births | 1956 deaths | People from Hampstead | People from Kilburn | 1900-1949 British children's literature | Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge | British Army personnel of World War I | Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers officers | English children's writers | English novelists | Members of the Detection Club | Old Westminsters | English poets | Winnie-the-Pooh | Deaths from stroke
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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. 4. . A. A. Milne. . Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. Christopher Robin to Pooh ...
Q. In other words, would you rather be pessimistic yet valid or happy yet inaccurate (conceptually)?
Asked by Sceilus - Wed Mar 17 01:17:56 2010 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments
A. I would rather be happy yet inaccurate. Look - life is very short to be pessimistic. You can be happy and make others happy - thats the way to live life. All people in this world are not accurate - that is why some people are considered to be genius while some are just unintelligent. If it weren't for these unintelligent people then there would be no consideration for geniuses in this world - so you see, inaccurate people also make a difference. Always be happy and live life to its fullest. so, I'd be Winnie the Pooh
Answered by Waka Waka, Go KAKA !!! - Wed Mar 17 01:22:09 2010


