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=**A.A Milne** = =BORN:in Kilburn, Londan Jan.18, 1882=

ABOUT HIS LIFE:
==**A.A Milne was a English Author who was best known for Winnie the Pooh and for other popular children poems. His parents were John Vine Milne and Sarah Maria Milne and grew up in Henley House School rd. and he went to a public school ran by his father. He went to Trinity College, Cambridge where he studied mathmatics. Him and his brother, Kenneth wrote articles over the initals AKM. Alan Milne joined the British Army in World War 1 and served as an officer and was discharged in Feburary 14, 1919. In World War 2, Alan was one of the most prominent critics of English writer P.G Wodehouse and was captured at his country home in France by the ﻿__Nazis__. After that horrible situation, he then married Dorothy "Daphne" de Selincourt in 1913, and their only son ﻿﻿ __Christopher Robin Milne__ ﻿was born in 1920. **==

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==ABOUT HIS/HER WORK: In 1924, Alex published a book of children's poems entilted "__**When We Were Very Young**__ ", with drawings from Punch Illistrators.The book became so successful, they made 50,000 copies within **EIGHT** weeks! Alan never read the poems or children books he made for his son to amuse him,but just to be with Chris.Today,Milne's poems, novels, and stories are often played in the theater. When Alan finishes his work, he reads his story by reading to Christopher & Pooh.==