A.A.Milne

Alan Alexander Milne were born at 19 January 1882 in London. When he was 11 years old, he began to write at the Westminster School poemes for the school paper. After that he studied mathematics at the Trinity Class in Cambridge and he worked as an editor for Granta, the students magazine of the university. In 1903, Milne left Cambridge and depart to London. He bombarded publishers with stories, essays and poemes. Fanity Fairly the first magazine, that published work of him. When his stories and poems also appeared in the satirical magazine Punch  was it clear that he would make career as a writer . In 1906, he became assistant-editor by the Punch.

In 1913, he met Doronthy the Selincourt, the gotchild of the editor, and in the same year they got married. But the World War 1 approached and Milne stepped in the service as a signals-officer by the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He fought at the Summe, where he went up the trenches fever  and the left service.

When Christopher Robin at August 1920 was born, Milne was a well-known writer. He had stand  many of successful plays on his name, such as the theatre adaptation of Kenneth Grahames The wind in the wilows, that was one of his favorite books. Christopher Robin gave a poetic turn at his authorship. That begun when Milne saw him pray before he get sleeping, after which he wrote the poem "Vespers".

In January 1923 was it published in Fanity Fair and in that year made also Christopher Robins teddy-bear, Winnie the Pooh, his entrance at the Punch with the poem "Teddy-Bear". In 1924, his first bundle of poems came out, When we were very young. The book was illustrated by E. H. Shepard, had at the same time an enormous success and meant the beginning of a sublime cooperation.

In 1925 moved Milne to Cotchford Farm in Sussex. by Ashdown Forest. The brilliant woods and the rustic surroundings were a source of inspiration for him and formed the scenery for the stories from Winnie the Poeh and The house in the Pooh-corner. The adventures of Christopher Robin and his cuddle animals were begun. A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard immortalized that world. Spots as the Hundred-Bunder-Woods and the Six Spruce Trees and the Forest become still visited through many people.

Winnie the Pooh appeared for the first time in 1926 and was recognized at the same time as more classic. In 1927, Milnes second poetry bundle appears, now we are six, followed in 1928 through The house in the Pooh-corner.

When Christopher Robin must to go to school, decided his father no longer write for children. A. A. Milne left behind four timeless books. Until the day of today enjoyed, everywhere in the world, children and adult of his books.

An operation on Milne's brain in 1952 left him an invalid during the last four years of his life. He died in Hartfield, Sussex, on January 31, 1956. After his wife's death in 1971, part of the fortune earned by the Pooh books came to the Royal Literary Fund, providing for writers in financial distress.

Almost all of this information came from the book "The complet book of Winnie the Pooh"