SOURCE: "A. A. Milne: the Fantasy Tamed," in Inventing Wonderland: The Lives and Fantasies of Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, J. M. Barrie, Kenneth Grahame, and A. A. Milne, Methuen, 1995, pp. 177-99.
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.
