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About the Author
A. A. Milne (1882–1956) was born in London and attended Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. At university, he edited Granta and in 1904 had his first piece published in Punch. In 1915 Milne volunteered and was commissioned into the Royal Warwickshire Regiment as a signals officer. In 1916, he was invalided home from the Somme and spent the last part of the war in Intelligence. Milne was an extremely successful playwright, whose titles include Mr Pim Passes By (1919), The Dover Road (1921) and Toad of Toad Hall (1929). The author of numerous non-fiction and fiction titles, including the ‘locked-room’ novel The Red House Mystery (1922), his best-known works are his two collections of children’s poetry, When We Were Very Young (1924) and Now We Are Six (1927), and most famously his two Pooh books, Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) and The House at Pooh Corner (1928).