Alan Alexander Milne was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work.
Milne grew up in Kilburn, London, where his father ran a small public school. He edited and wrote a student magazine until his work came to the attention of the leading British humour magazine Punch, where Milne was to become a contributor and later an assistant editor. After his son was born, he produced a collection of children's poems, When We Were Very Young, which were illustrated by E. H. Shepard.
Milne is most famous for his two Pooh books about a boy named Christopher Robin after his son and various characters inspired by his son's stuffed animals. E. H. Shepard illustrated the original Pooh books, using his own son's teddy, Growler, as the model. Winnie-the-Pooh was published in 1926, followed by The House at Pooh Corner in 1928. A second collection of nursery rhymes, Now We Are Six, was published in 1927. In 1930, Milne adapted Kenneth Grahame's novel The Wind in the Willows for the stage as Toad of Toad Hall.
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