Alan      Alexander  Milne

Hello everybody, today I am going to talk you about my author who I had to do the presentation. I will write about the most important facts of his life and why is he so famous.

A.A. Milne (18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was a novelist, playwright and poet. He was from Hampstead, London, England. Milne joined the British Army in World War I and served as an officer in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. For that reason, he wrote: a denunciation of war titled Peace with Honour (1934) and War with Honour (1940). In these articles he denounced the actions of war carried out by Nazis.

He started writing mystery and murder novels, but his books hadn’t enough success, so he started with the poems.

The origins of Winnie the Pooh began with the real bear of the brigade of Milne, in the army. This brigade had a bear as a pet called Winnie. And when the war finished Milner took his song to the London zoo to visit the bear. Then, Milner’s son, called his teddy bear “Winnie” because of the real bear. Milne began with Winnie the Pooh telling stories to his son Christopher. Winnie the Pooh stories are set in Ashdown Forest, England, because Milne and his son walked there.

All the characters were based on his son’s teddies:

Related with the famous book Winnie the Pooh, the first time, Pooh appeared in a poem called “Teddy bear”, because he wasn’t known as Pooh yet. One year later, Pooh born in the “London Evening News” of Christmas Eve and he appeared in a story called “The Wrong Sort of Bees”. Winnie the Pooh was published in 1926 and in the following years, Alan Alexander Milne, wrote other different stories about Pooh. When he died in 1956, Disney bought the rights of his stories to create Pooh cartoons and the family of A.A.Milne received 350.000.000 $.