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Biography

Name: Alan Alexander Milne
Variant Name: A. A. Milne
Birth Date: January 18, 1882
Death Date: January 31, 1956
Place of Birth: London, England
Place of Death: Hartfield, Sussex, England
Nationality: British
Gender: Male
Occupations: poet, playwright, novelist

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Biography of A(lan) A(lexander) Milne
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Alan Alexander Milne was born in London. Youngest son of schoolmaster John Vine Milne, he attended Westminster School and later Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was graduated in 1903 with honors in mathematics. Upon completion of his studies, he...
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Biography of Alan Alexander Milne
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A.A. Milne (1882-1956) worked as an essayist, a playwright, a poet, and an adult novelist, in addition to his important contribution as an author of juvenile books. Although he attempted to excel in all literary genres, he was master of Christopher...
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Biography of A(lan) A(lexander) Milne
696 words, approx. 2 pages
In his autobiography, It's Too Late Now (1939), A. A. Milne complains that his children's books have eclipsed his other kinds of writing. Best known before Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) as a playwright, Milne was an important mystery writer, and the...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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A. A. Milne Information
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Alan Alexander Milne (pronounced /ˈmɪln/) (January 18, 1882 – January 31, 1956), also known as A. A. Milne, was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems. Milne was a noted...


News and Journals
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Reuters historical calendar - January 31
1/24/2008: 382 words, approx. 1 pages
Jan 24 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major events to have occurred on January 31 since 1900: 1943 - German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrendered to the Russians at Stalingrad in World War Two. 1956 - A.A. Milne, author of the "Winnie...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Jackie Wullschläger
7,327 words, approx. 24 pages
In the following excerpt, Wullschläger provides an overview of Milne's career, including not only the triumphs of his work as a children's writer, but his various professional and personal disappointments as well.
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Critical Essay by Carol A. Stanger
6,408 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following essay, Stanger uses ideas about the semiotic or preverbal world—as contrasted with the symbolic or verbal one—in order to examine the Pooh books from a feminist perspective.
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Critical Essay by Anita Wilson
3,984 words, approx. 13 pages
In the following essay, Wilson offers a close examination of the poems, and of the underlying worldview, in Milne's two books of poetry for children.
 


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