The Complete Short Stories of A. A. Milne

About A.A. Milne

Alan Alexander Milne (1882-1956) was born in London. He was a regular contributor to Punch and later assistant editor before the interruption of active service in the First World War. A remarkably versatile writer Milne went on to become a hugely successful and widely-known playwright both in the West End and on Broadway as well as an essayist poet novelist and most famously childrens author as the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh. Gyles Brandreth is a former Punch contributor and lifelong admirer of the work of A. A. Milne. A friend of Christopher Robin Milne Gyles wrote Now We Are Sixty with the composer Julian Slade in the 1980s a play celebrating A. A. Milne in which the young Aled Jones starred as Christopher Robin.