AA Milne, with the real Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh
January 31st 1956: A.A. Milne died
On this day in 1956, English author A.A. Milne - famous for the Winnie the Pooh books - died aged 74. Alan Alexander Milne was born in London in 1882. Milne studied mathematics at Cambridge University, and wrote for humorous magazine Punch upon graduating. A pacifist, Milne still joined the army during the First World War, but did not spend long on the front lines due to an illness and instead worked on government propaganda. In the early 1920s, Milne published his first children’s poems, which featured his son Christopher Robin and a talking teddy bear. In 1925, Winnie the Pooh officially debuted in a bedtime story published in the Evening News. It was around this time that Milne moved his family to a cottage at Cotchford Farm in Sussex, which provided the inspiration for the Hundred Acre Wood of the Pooh books. Milne went on to publish two Pooh books between 1926 and 1928, but stopped to shield his son from publicity. The books followed the adventures of Christopher Robin and his animal playmates - including Pooh, Eeyore, Tigger, Kanga, and Piglet - who were inspired by Milne’s son’s stuffed toys. Milne wrote a number of plays and books, but, to his chagrin, these were never as popular as the Pooh books. Indeed, both Milne and his son came to resent the success of the Pooh books, and the unwanted fame they brought to the family. After several years of illness, which confined him to his home, A.A. Milne died in January 1956.
“…wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.”
- The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
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