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...
The Sunny Side is a collection of short stories and essays by A. A. Milne. Though Milne is best known for his classic children's books, he also wrote extensively for adults, most notably in Punch, to which he was a contributor and later Assistant...
MY COLLEAGUE ED AND I were talking, about life or luck or fate or some such thing and the apprehension we both feel that, when things are going really well, they will soon go really bad. Ed says this fear of his is characteristic...
LAURENCE CHOLLET The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 08-30-2000 THE SUNNY SIDE OF HEARST -- DAVID NASAW'S NEW BIOGRAPHY OF AMERICA'S FIRST MEDIA MOGUL CONTRADICTS THE 'CITIZEN KANE' IMAGE OF THE TRAGIC, LONELY FIGURE By LAURENCE CHOLLET Date: 08-30-2000, Wednesday Section: YOUR TIME Edition: All...
THE BULLDOZER AND THE BIG TENT: BLIND REPUBLICANS, LAME DEMOCRATS, AND THE RECOVERY OF AMERICAN IDEALSBy Todd GitlinWiley, 327 pages, $25.95 I want to be upfront here: I’m a political junkie, and I was in the next precinct voting Democratic when Todd Gitlin poll-watched in...
Leave it to Lorena Ochoa to find the sunny side of a tropical depression. Ochoa shot a 2-under 70 to maintain her three-shot lead at the Ginn Tribute on Saturday, though three bogeys over the final six holes in drenching rains cost her a much...
