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 imme...
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 Robin...
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 popularity...
Our theatergoing predecessors knew something we've forgotten: A. A. Milne didn't write just for children. His limpid country-house comedy "Mr. Pim Passes By" (1919) was a smash in London and New York, but it was promptly forgotten after the '20s. Happily for us, director...
Even if Noel Coward seems to have won the posterity contest, A.A. Milne's plays hold up (despire the fact that the English playwright remains best known for his Winnie-the-Pooh tales). Proving that this season is Main Street Theatre in Houston, Tex., which will present...
