A. A. Milne

Alan Alexander Milne was born in London in 1882 and grew up at a small school run by his father, where one of the teachers was H. G. Wells. He studied mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, and edited the student magazine Granta before becoming a humorous writer for Punch, where he was later assistant editor. He served as an officer in the British Army during the First World War and afterward wrote successful plays and a detective novel. His son, Christopher Robin Milne, was born in 1920, and the boy's stuffed animals gave Milne the characters for Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) and The House at Pooh Corner (1928), illustrated by E. H. Shepard. He also published two books of children's verse, When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six. The Pooh books became world famous, somewhat overshadowing his other writing. Milne lived for many years at Cotchford Farm in Sussex and died in 1956.

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Faith: Faith not well documented; he said little in public about religion, and his best-known remarks were critical of parts of the Old Testament. Source: Wikipedia