Alan Alexander Milne was an English author popular for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and children's poetry.
| FactSnippet No. 2,570,547 |
24 Facts About AA Milne
2.
AA Milne was primarily a playwright before the huge success of Winnie-the-Pooh overshadowed all his previous work.
| FactSnippet No. 2,570,548 |
3.
AA Milne served in both World Wars, serving in the main British Army in the First World War and as a captain of the British Home Guard in the Second World War.
| FactSnippet No. 2,570,549 |
4.
AA Milne was the father of bookseller Christopher Robin AA Milne, upon whom the character Christopher Robin is based.
| FactSnippet No. 2,570,550 |
5.
AA Milne collaborated with his brother Kenneth and their articles appeared over the initials AKM.
| FactSnippet No. 2,570,551 |
Related searches
Winnie-the-Pooh British Army Warwickshire World War I England Sussex British film Minerva London Wind Austin Texas6.
AA Milne's work came to the attention of the leading British humour magazine Punch, where AA Milne was to become a contributor and later an assistant editor.
| FactSnippet No. 2,570,552 |
7.
AA Milne joined the British Army in World War I and served as an officer in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and later, after a debilitating illness, the Royal Corps of Signals.
| FactSnippet No. 2,570,553 |
8.
AA Milne was commissioned into the 4th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, on 1 February 1915 as a second lieutenant.
| FactSnippet No. 2,570,554 |
9.
AA Milne served on the Somme as a signals officer from July-November 1916, but caught trench fever and was invalided back to England.
| FactSnippet No. 2,570,555 |
10.
AA Milne was discharged on 14 February 1919, and settled in Mallord Street, Chelsea.
| FactSnippet No. 2,570,556 |
11.
AA Milne relinquished his commission on 19 February 1920, retaining the rank of lieutenant.
| FactSnippet No. 2,570,557 |
12.
AA Milne married Dorothy "Daphne" de Selincourt in 1913 and their son Christopher Robin AA Milne was born in 1920.
| FactSnippet No. 2,570,558 |
13.
In 1925, AA Milne bought a country home, Cotchford Farm, in Hartfield, East Sussex.
| FactSnippet No. 2,570,559 |
14.
AA Milne contributed humorous verse and whimsical essays to Punch, joining the staff in 1906 and becoming an assistant editor.
| FactSnippet No. 2,570,560 |
15.
AA Milne was an early screenwriter for the nascent British film industry, writing four stories filmed in 1920 for the company Minerva Films.
| FactSnippet No. 2,570,561 |
16.
AA Milne had met Howard when the actor starred in AA Milne's play Mr Pim Passes By in London.
| FactSnippet No. 2,570,562 |
17.
AA Milne is most famous for his two Pooh books about a boy named Christopher Robin after his son, Christopher Robin AA Milne, and various characters inspired by his son's stuffed animals, most notably the bear named Winnie-the-Pooh.
| FactSnippet No. 2,570,563 |
18.
Christopher Robin AA Milne's stuffed bear, originally named Edward, was renamed Winnie after a Canadian black bear named Winnie, which was used as a military mascot in World War I, and left to London Zoo during the war.
| FactSnippet No. 2,570,564 |
19.
AA Milne lived on the northern edge of the forest at Cotchford Farm,.
| FactSnippet No. 2,570,565 |
20.
AA Milne "gallantly stepped forward" to contribute a quarter of the costs of dramatising P G Wodehouse's A Damsel in Distress.
| FactSnippet No. 2,570,566 |
21.
In 1930, AA Milne adapted Kenneth Grahame's novel The Wind in the Willows for the stage as Toad of Toad Hall.
| FactSnippet No. 2,570,567 |
22.
AA Milne's poems have been parodied many times, including with the books When We Were Rather Older and Now We Are Sixty.
| FactSnippet No. 2,570,568 |
24.
AA Milne's best known comment on the subject was recalled on his death:.
| FactSnippet No. 2,570,570 |