A.A. Milne

A. A. MILNE

Date of Birth: January 18, 1882
Date of Death: January 31, 1956
Birthplace: London, England
Education: B.A. in mathematics, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1903.
Profession: Freelance journalist in London, 1903-06; Assistant editor, Punch  magazine, 1906-14; British Army, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 1914-18; Essayist, dramatist (author of over two dozen plays), novelist (author of over half a dozen novels, as well as essay and poetry collections), and writer for children.
...Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.
-A.A. Milne, ending of Milne's last Pooh story

A pen-picture of a child which showed it as loving, grateful, and full of thoughts for others would be false to the truth; but equally false would be a picture that insisted on the brutal egotism of the child, and ignored the physical beauty which softens it. Equally false and equally sentimental, for sentimentality is merely an appeal to emotions not warrented by the facts...When, for instance, Dorothy Parker, as 'Constant Reader' in The New Yorker , delights the sophisticated by announcing that at page five of The House at Pooh Corner  'Tonstant Weader fwowed up' (sic, if I may), she leaves the book, oddly enough, much where it was. However greatly indebted to Mrs. Parker, no Alderney, at the approach of a milkmaid, thinks, 'I hope this lot will turn out to be gin,' no writer of children's books says gaily to his publisher, 'Don't bother about the children, Mrs. Parker will love it.'
-A.A. Milne, Autobiography

My father was a creative writer and so it was precisely because he was not  able to play with his small son that his longings sought and found satisfaction in another direction. He wrote about him instead.
-Christopher (Robin) Milne