“Because my spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”
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A. A. Milne
Alan Alexander Milne was an English writer best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh, as well as children's poetry. Milne was primarily a playwright before the huge success of Winnie-the-Pooh overshadowed his previous work. He served as a lieutenant in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in the First World War and as a captain in the Home Guard in the Second World War.
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culture · English writer (1882–1956) · writer · poet · novelist · children's writer · screenwriter · military officer · playwright · essayist · short story writer · journalist · also A. A. Milne, Milne
Born 18 January 1882 · Died 31 January 1956 · Q207036
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2026· 3 entries
“when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”
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“And he respects Owl, because you can't help respecting anyone who can spell Tuesday, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.”
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2018· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “A.A. Milne created the animal characters in 'Winnie-the-Pooh' to represent various mental disorders.” False.
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2016· 1 entry
A new character, a Penguin, was unveiled in The Best Bear in All the World, which was inspired by a long-lost photograph of Milne and his son Christopher with a toy penguin
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2008· 1 entry
A collection of original illustrations featuring Winnie-the-Pooh and his animal friends sold for more than £1
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2006· 1 entry
Winnie-the-Pooh received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, marking the 80th birthday of Milne's creation
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2005· 1 entry
Winnie the Pooh generated $6 billion, a figure surpassed only by Mickey Mouse
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2003· 2 entries
“In that enchanted place on the top of the forest a little boy and his bear will always be playing.”
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Winnie-the-Pooh was ranked number 7 on the BBC's The Big Read poll which determined the UK's "best-loved novels"
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2001· 1 entry
The other beneficiaries sold their interest in the estate to the Disney Corporation for $350m
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1964· 1 entry
Consists of manuscript drafts and fragments for over 150 of Milne's works, as well as correspondence, legal documents, genealogical records, and some personal effects
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1956· 3 entries
Died 1956-01-31.
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“Kiedy kobieta wielkiej urody dziękuje mężczyźnie z pokorą za coś, czego jeszcze nie otrzymała, dżentelmen ma tylko jedno wyjście.”
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His widow sold her rights to the Pooh characters to Stephen Slesinger, whose widow sold the rights after Slesinger's death to Walt Disney Productions, which has made many Pooh cartoon movies, a Disney Channel television
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1952· 1 entry
Left him an invalid; and by August 1953, "he seemed very old and disenchanted
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1929· 1 entry
Milne adapted Kenneth Grahame's novel The Wind in the Willows for the stage as Toad of Toad Hall
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1926· 1 entry
Followed by The House at Pooh Corner in 1928
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1925· 1 entry
Milne bought a country home, Cotchford Farm, in Hartfield, East Sussex
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1924· 1 entry
Milne produced a collection of children's poems, When We Were Very Young, which were illustrated by Punch staff cartoonist E
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1920· 1 entry
For the company Minerva Films (founded in 1920 by the actor Leslie Howard and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel)
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1913· 1 entry
And their son Christopher Robin Milne was born in 1920
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1903· 1 entry
Though he was always interested in writing
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1882· 1 entry
Born 1882-01-18.
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