Milne, A. A.
Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander Milne, 1882–1956),British humorist, playwright, and children's writer. Best known for his children's poetry and for his toy stories, Winnie‐the‐Pooh (1926) and The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Milne was also intrigued by the form and conventions of the fairy tale and wrote a number of literary fairy tales for adults and for children. Indeed, according to his own account in It's Too Late Now (1939), as the youngest of three sons, he grew up half‐expecting the charmed future fairy tales predicted for him. At Henley House, the small school run by his father in London, he showed outstanding promise in mathematics and won a scholarship to Westminster School at the remarkably early age of 11. Deprived of his father's imaginative teaching, however, he soon lost interest in schoolwork. His hobby of writing light verse in collaboration with his brother Ken became an avocation, and at Cambridge University his...
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