A.The Milne family lived in a small public school house that the parents ran called Henley House School on 6/7 Mortimer Road. His autobiography, It’s Too Late Now, was published in 1939.

He kept working on short stories and novels and remained popular in Britain and American, although he lost his adult audience by 1930s. He wanted to pursue writing for mature audience. Milne won Lewis Carroll Shelf Award for The World of Pooh.ĭespite the success of his children’s book, Milne was not content with the state of affair as he was only expected to write in that particular genre. The boy in the Pooh books is Christopher’s namesake and his stuffed toys became model for Pooh’s character and his friends. The inspiration for the work was Milne’s own son, Christopher Robin. More Pooh story books followed and each character was illustrated by E. Following the poem, the actual story book, titled Winnie-the-Pooh, was released in 1926. The poem was published in 1924 in a magazine Punch. Children’s all-time favorite character, Pooh, made its first appearance in the poem, Teddy Bear. A short story collection, Gallery of Children, came out next year which also laid grounds for Winnie-the-Pooh books. Becoming a father in 1920, he started working on a children’s poem collection, When We Were Very Young, which was published in 1924. Subsequently, his works diversified into children’s poems and stories. In fact, he adapted his own play into novel, titled Mr. Another extremely popular piece Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was adapted into play as Miss Elizabeth Bennet in 1936. The adapted play was named Toad of Toad Hall (1929). In addition to Milne’s other works, he also adapted a novel The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame for theater. One of his detective novels The Red House Mystery was published in 1922. Milne produced a handful of novels during this period. The screenplays he worked on include The Bump, Bookworms and Twice Two Five Pound Reward.

Milne offered his services as a screenwriter to the nascent British film industry. Both the plays successfully garnered positive reviews by the critics.ĭuring the period of 1903 to 1925 he penned 18 plays and 3 novels. His early works include The Dover Road (1921) and Mr.

Subsequent to war Milne produced a number of plays that earned him success as a playwright. Later he denounced war in his literary piece Peace with Honour (1934). Milne made his writing debut with, Wurzel-Flummer, a one-act farce, which he wrote during his military service. In 1919, he was discharged and settled in London after getting married. As his health started deteriorating, he was recruited to produce propaganda articles in Military Intelligence. Despite Milne’s stance on pacifism, during World War I he joined British Army as an officer.

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