But somehow for a little kid the world is always a place of wonder, no matter HOW bad he feels. He was 74 years old when he passed away in 1956.īack in the fifties, one Christmas, I had a mammoth case of the flu.

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'. Milne was Captain of the Home Guard in Hartfield & Forest Row, insisting on being plain 'Mr. Milne bought a country home, Cotchford Farm, in Hartfield, East Sussex. He married Dorothy 'Daphne' de Sélincourt in 1913, and their only son, Christopher Robin Milne, was born in 1920.

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. Although the light-hearted broadcasts made fun of the Germans, Milne accused Wodehouse of committing an act of near treason by cooperating with his country's enemy. Wodehouse made radio broadcasts about his internment, which were broadcast from Berlin. Wodehouse, who was captured at his country home in France by the Nazis and imprisoned for a year. During World War II, Milne was one of the most prominent critics of English writer P. He was discharged on February 14, 1919.Īfter the war, he wrote a denunciation of war titled Peace with Honour (1934), which he retracted somewhat with 1940's War with Honour. Milne joined the British Army in World War I and served as an officer in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and later, after a debilitating illness, the Royal Corps of Signals. Milne's work came to the attention of the leading British humour magazine Punch, where Milne was to become a contributor and later an assistant editor. He collaborated with his brother Kenneth and their articles appeared over the initials AKM. While there, he edited and wrote for Granta, a student magazine. Milne attended Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied on a mathematics scholarship. Milne was born in Kilburn, London, to parents Vince Milne and Sarah Marie Milne (née Heginbotham) and grew up at Henley House School, 6/7 Mortimer Road (now Crescent), Kilburn, a small public school run by his father. Alan Alexander Milne (pronounced /ˈmɪln/) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems.Ī.

The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne