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Autobiography

by A.A. Milne

4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 · rating details · 13 ratings · 4 reviews

Hardcover , 1st US , 315 pages

Published 1939 by E. P. Dutton

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Jun 15, 2013 Katie rated it 4 of 5 stars

I really enjoyed the first hundred pages or so, and only moderately enjoyed the rest. I think this is because Milne's writing style was exactly the same throughout, and the self-deprecating humor and false humility ceased to be funny after a hundred pages of it. But he's a fascinating guy and he did manage to keep my interest through the end of the book, which is saying something. Over half of the book was concerned with his childhood and adolescence (up to age 21), which I really appreciated - ...more

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Dec 10, 2008 Suzanne rated it 4 of 5 stars

So delightfully British. A. A. Milne's childhood is the focus here, lovingly related in charming detail. I recommend this for Anglophiles - you know who you are. His writing of the Winnie-the-Pooh books is extremely brief, so don't read it for that.

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Aug 30, 2010 Zaiga rated it 4 of 5 stars

He is as hilarious when writing about his own life as he is writing about Pooh's. :) I wish he was a) still alive b) my friend.

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Dec 29, 2010 Eileen rated it 5 of 5 stars

I loved this book. This is the author of the Winnie-the-Pooh books.

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About A.A. Milne

Alan Alexander Milne (pronounced /ˈmɪln/) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems.

A. A. Milne was born in Kilburn, London, to parents Vince Milne and Sarah Marie Milne (née Heginbotham) and grew up at Henley House School, 6/7 Mortimer Road (now Crescent), Kilburn, a small public school run by his father. One of his teac Alan Alexander Milne (pronounced /ˈmɪln/) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems.

A. A. Milne was born in Kilburn, London, to parents Vince Milne and Sarah Marie Milne (née Heginbotham) and grew up at Henley House School, 6/7 Mortimer Road (now Crescent), Kilburn, a small public school run by his father. One of his teachers was H. G. Wells who taught there in 1889–90. Milne attended Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied on a mathematics scholarship. While there, he edited and wrote for Granta, a student magazine. He collaborated with his brother Kenneth and their articles appeared over the initials AKM. Milne's work came to the attention of the leading British humour magazine Punch, where Milne was to become a contributor and later an assistant editor.

Milne joined the British Army in World War I and served as an officer in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and later, after a debilitating illness, the Royal Corps of Signals. He was discharged on February 14, 1919.

After the war, he wrote a denunciation of war titled Peace with Honour (1934), which he retracted somewhat with 1940's War with Honour. During World War II, Milne was one of the most prominent critics of English writer P. G. Wodehouse, who was captured at his country home in France by the Nazis and imprisoned for a year. Wodehouse made radio broadcasts about his internment, which were broadcast from Berlin. Although the light-hearted broadcasts made fun of the Germans, Milne accused Wodehouse of committing an act of near treason by cooperating with his country's enemy. Wodehouse got some revenge on his former friend by creating fatuous parodies of the Christopher Robin poems in some of his later stories, and claiming that Milne "was probably jealous of all other writers.... But I loved his stuff."

He married Dorothy "Daphne" de Sélincourt in 1913, and their only son, Christopher Robin Milne, was born in 1920. In 1925, A. A. Milne bought a country home, Cotchford Farm, in Hartfield, East Sussex. During World War II, A. A. Milne was Captain of the Home Guard in Hartfield & Forest Row, insisting on being plain 'Mr. Milne' to the members of his platoon. He retired to the farm after a stroke and brain surgery in 1952 left him an invalid and by August 1953 "he seemed very old and disenchanted".

He was 74 years old when he passed away in 1956. ...more

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The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1-4)

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When We Were Very Young (Winnie-the-Pooh, #3)

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