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(1882-1956) British writer. A.A. Milne is the creator of Winnie the Pooh. Besides his stories about Winnie the Pooh, and his poetry, he also wrote an autobiography, "It's Too Late Now" (1939), and a play, "Toad in Toad Hall."
Postmodern Pooh
"Postmodern Pooh" is a critical update to the satire, "Pooh Perplex," which Frederick Crews created in 1964. Here, Crews offers 11 essays, purported to have come from a panel of scholars on Pooh, which fictitiously convened at the Modern Language Association Convention in December 2000. Read on.
A. A. Milne (1885-1956)
"English writer, the creator of Winner-the-Pooh. Milne wrote many different kinds of books, humorous verses and light comedies as a staff member of Punch, and the detective novel THE RED HOUSE MYSTERY, which was severely criticized by Raymond Chandler. But Milne's most popular works are WINNIE-THE-POOH (1926) and THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER (1928)."
A. A. Milne - The Author
"When Sarah Marie and John Vince Milne bought their youngest son into the world, Alan Alexander Milne (A.A. Milne) they had no idea he would grow to be one of the worlds greatest children's story teller."
Pooh Corner
"Scots by birth, Alan Milne spent his childhood in London, where his father was a preparatory schoolmaster."

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