Alan Alexander Milne (; 18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English writer best known for his books about the

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Winnie-the-Pooh Winnie-the-Pooh, also called Pooh Bear and Pooh, is a fictional anthropomorphic teddy bear created by English author A. A. Milne and English illustrator E. H. Shepard. The first collection of stories about the character was the book ''Win ...

, as well as for children's poetry. Milne was primarily a playwright before the huge success of Winnie-the-Pooh overshadowed all his previous work. Milne served in both World Wars, as a

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in the

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in the

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and as a captain in the

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in the

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. Milne was the father of bookseller Christopher Robin Milne, upon whom the character Christopher Robin is based. It was during a visit to London Zoo, where Christopher became enamoured with the tame and amiable bear

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, that inspired Milne to write the story for his son.

Early life and military career

Alan Alexander Milne was born in

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, to John Vine Milne, who was born in

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, and Sarah Marie Milne (née Heginbotham), on 18 January 1882. He grew up at Henley House School, 6/7 Mortimer Road (now Crescent), Kilburn, a small independent school run by his father. One of his teachers was

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and

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, where he studied on a mathematics scholarship, graduating with a

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in Mathematics in 1903. He edited and wrote for ''

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'', 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 ''

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'', where Milne was to become a contributor and later an assistant editor. Considered a talented

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fielder, Milne played for two amateur teams that were largely composed of British writers: the

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and the Authors XI. His teammates included fellow writers

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, Arthur Conan Doyle and

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. Milne joined the British Army in

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and served as an officer in the

. He was commissioned into the 4th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, on 1 February 1915 as a second lieutenant (on probation). His commission was confirmed on 20 December 1915. He served on the Somme as a signals officer from July-November 1916, but caught trench fever and was invalided back to England. Having recuperated, he worked as a signals instructor, before being recruited into Military Intelligence to write propaganda articles for MI7 (b) between 1917 and 1918. He was discharged on 14 February 1919, and settled in Mallord Street,

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. He relinquished his commission on 19 February 1920, retaining the rank of lieutenant. Harrods of Knightsbridge, London, SW1 - geograph

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 fellow English writer (and Authors XI cricket teammate) P. G. Wodehouse, who was captured at his country home in France by the

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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 (e.g. in '' The Mating Season'') 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." Milne married Dorothy "Daphne" de Sélincourt (1890–1971) in 1913 and their son Christopher Robin Milne was born in 1920. In 1925, Milne bought a country home,

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, in

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, East Sussex. During World War II, Milne was a captain in the

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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." Milne died in January 1956, aged 74.

Literary career

1903 to 1925

After graduating from Cambridge University in 1903, A. A. Milne contributed humorous verse and whimsical essays to ''Punch'', joining the staff in 1906 and becoming an assistant editor. During this period he published 18 plays and three novels, including the murder mystery ''

The Red House Mystery ''The Red House Mystery'' is a whodunnit by A. A. Milne, published in 1922. It was Milne's only mystery novel (except for Four Days Wonder). Plot introduction The setting is an English country house, where Mark Ablett has been entertaining a ...

'' (1922). His son was born in August 1920 and in 1924 Milne produced a collection of children's poems, ''

When We Were Very Young ''When We Were Very Young'' is a best-selling book of poetry by A. A. Milne. It was first published in 1924, and it was illustrated by E. H. Shepard. Several of the verses were set to music by Harold Fraser-Simson. The book begins with an int ...

'', which were illustrated by ''Punch'' staff cartoonist E. H. Shepard. A collection of short stories for children '' A Gallery of Children'', and other stories that became part of the Winnie-the-Pooh books, were first published in 1925. Milne was an early screenwriter for the nascent British film industry, writing four stories filmed in 1920 for the company Minerva Films (founded in 1920 by the actor

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and his friend and story editor

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). These were ''The Bump'', starring Aubrey Smith; ''Twice Two''; ''Five Pound Reward''; and ''Bookworms''. Some of these films survive in the archives of the

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. Milne had met Howard when the actor starred in Milne's play ''Mr Pim Passes By'' in London. Looking back on this period (in 1926), Milne observed that when he told his agent that he was going to write a detective story, he was told that what the country wanted from a "''Punch'' humorist" was a humorous story; when two years later he said he was writing nursery rhymes, his agent and publisher were convinced he should write another detective story; and after another two years, he was being told that writing a detective story would be in the worst of taste given the demand for children's books. He concluded that "the only excuse which I have yet discovered for writing anything is that I want to write it; and I should be as proud to be delivered of a Telephone Directory ''con amore'' as I should be ashamed to create a Blank Verse Tragedy at the bidding of others."

1926 to 1928

Milne is most famous for his two ''Pooh'' books about a boy named Christopher Robin after his son, Christopher Robin Milne (1920–1996), and various characters inspired by his son's stuffed animals, most notably the bear named

. Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed bear, originally named Edward, was renamed Winnie after a Canadian

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named Winnie (after

), which was used as a military mascot in World War I, and left to London Zoo during the war. "The Pooh" comes from a swan the young Milne named "Pooh". E. H. Shepard illustrated the original Pooh books, using his own son's teddy Growler ("a magnificent bear") as the model. The rest of Christopher Robin Milne's toys, Piglet,

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, Kanga, Roo and

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, were incorporated into A. A. Milne's stories, and two more characters – Rabbit and Owl – were created by Milne's imagination. Christopher Robin Milne's own toys are now on display in New York where 750,000 people visit them every year. The original Winnie the Pooh toys

The fictional

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of the Pooh stories derives from Five Hundred Acre Wood in

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in East Sussex, South East England, where the Pooh stories were set. Milne lived on the northern edge of the forest at Cotchford Farm, , and took his son walking there. E. H. Shepard drew on the landscapes of Ashdown Forest as inspiration for many of the illustrations he provided for the Pooh books. The adult Christopher Robin commented: "Pooh's Forest and Ashdown Forest are identical." Popular tourist locations at Ashdown Forest include: ''Galleon's Lap'', ''The Enchanted Place'', the ''

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'' and ''Lone Pine'', ''Eeyore’s Sad and Gloomy Place'', and the wooden ''Pooh Bridge'' where Pooh and Piglet invented

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. Not yet known as Pooh, he made his first appearance in a poem, "Teddy Bear", published in ''

'' magazine in February 1924 and republished that year in ''

''. Pooh first appeared in the '' London Evening News'' on Christmas Eve, 1925, in a story called "The Wrong Sort of Bees"."Pooh celebrates his 80th birthday"
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'' was published in 1926, followed by ''

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'' in 1928. A second collection of nursery rhymes, ''

Now We Are Six ''Now We Are Six'' is a book of thirty-five children's verses by A. A. Milne, with illustrations by E. H. Shepard. It was first published in 1927 including poems such as "King John's Christmas", "Binker" and "Pinkle Purr". Eleven of the poem ...

'', was published in 1927. All four books were illustrated by E. H. Shepard. Milne also published four plays in this period. He also "gallantly stepped forward" to contribute a quarter of the costs of dramatising P. G. Wodehouse's ''A Damsel in Distress''. ''The World of Pooh'' won the

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in 1958.

1929 onwards

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war ''Punch'' from its ponderous facetiousness; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright (like his idol

) on both sides of the Atlantic; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in ''

'' (although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot in his essay '' The Simple Art of Murder'' in the eponymous collection that appeared in 1950). But once Milne had, in his own words, "said goodbye to all that in 70,000 words" (the approximate length of his four principal children's books), he had no intention of producing any reworkings lacking in originality, given that one of the sources of inspiration, his son, was growing older. Another reason Milne stopped writing children's books, and especially about Winnie-the-Pooh, was that he felt "amazement and disgust" over the fame his son was exposed to, and said that "I feel that the legal Christopher Robin has already had more publicity than I want for him. I do not want CR Milne to ever wish that his name were Charles Robert." In his literary home, ''

'', where the ''When We Were Very Young'' verses had first appeared, Methuen continued to publish whatever Milne wrote, including the long poem "The Norman Church" and an assembly of articles entitled ''Year In, Year Out'' (which Milne likened to a benefit night for the author). In 1930, Milne adapted

Kenneth Grahame Kenneth Grahame ( ; 8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a British writer born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is most famous for ''The Wind in the Willows'' (1908), a classic of children's literature, as well as '' The Reluctant Dragon''. Both books w ...

's novel ''

The Wind in the Willows ''The Wind in the Willows'' is a children's novel by the British novelist Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. It details the story of Mole, Ratty, and Badger as they try to help Mr. Toad, after he becomes obsessed with motorcars and get ...

'' for the stage as '' Toad of Toad Hall''. The title was an implicit admission that such chapters as Chapter 7, "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn," could not survive translation to the theatre. A special introduction written by Milne is included in some editions of Grahame's novel. Milne and his wife became estranged from their son, who came to resent what he saw as his father's exploitation of his childhood and came to hate the books that had thrust him into the public eye. Christopher's marriage to his first cousin, Lesley de Sélincourt, distanced him still further from his parents – Lesley's father and Christopher's mother had not spoken to each other for 30 years.

Death and legacy

Commemoration

A. A. Milne died at his home in

, Sussex, on 31 January 1956, nearly two weeks after his 74th birthday. After a memorial service in London, his ashes were scattered in a crematorium's memorial garden in Brighton. The rights to A. A. Milne's Pooh books were left to four beneficiaries: his family, the Royal Literary Fund,

and the

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. After Milne's death in 1956, thirteen days after his 74th birthday, his widow sold her rights to the Pooh characters to

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, whose widow sold the rights after Slesinger's death to

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, which has made many Pooh cartoon movies, a Disney Channel television show, as well as Pooh-related merchandise. In 2001, the other beneficiaries sold their interest in the estate to the Disney Corporation for $350m. Previously Disney had been paying twice-yearly royalties to these beneficiaries. The estate of E. H. Shepard also received a sum in the deal. The UK copyright on the text of the original Winnie the Pooh books expires on 1 January 2027; at the beginning of the year after the 70th anniversary of the author's death ( PMA-70), and has already expired in those countries with a PMA-50 rule. This applies to all of Milne's works except those first published posthumously. The illustrations in the Pooh books will remain under copyright until the same amount of time has passed, after the illustrator's death; in the UK, this will be on 1 January 2047. In the US, copyright will not expire until 95 years after publication for each of Milne's books first published before 1978, but this includes the illustrations. In 2008, a collection of original illustrations featuring Winnie-the-Pooh and his animal friends sold for more than £1.2 million at auction in Sotheby's, London. ''Forbes'' magazine ranked Winnie the Pooh the most valuable fictional character in 2002; Winnie the Pooh merchandising products alone had annual sales of more than $5.9 billion. In 2005, Winnie the Pooh generated $6 billion, a figure surpassed only by Mickey Mouse. Gills Lap Plaque

A memorial plaque in

, unveiled by Christopher Robin in 1979, commemorates the work of A. A. Milne and Shepard in creating the world of Pooh. The inscription states they "captured the magic of Ashdown Forest, and gave it to the world". Milne once wrote of Ashdown Forest: "In that enchanted place on the top of the forest a little boy and his bear will always be playing."Ford, Rebecca (28 February 2007
"Happy Birthday Pooh"
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poll which determined the UK's "best-loved novels". In 2006, Winnie-the-Pooh received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, marking the 80th birthday of Milne's creation."Pooh joins Hollywood Walk of Fame"
BBC. Retrieved 24 November 2014 Marking the 90th anniversary of Milne's creation of the character, and the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II, '' Winnie-the-Pooh Meets the Queen'' (2016) sees Pooh meet the Queen at Buckingham Palace. The illustrated and audio adventure is narrated by the actor Jim Broadbent. Also in 2016, 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. An exhibition entitled '' Winnie-the-Pooh: Exploring a Classic'' appeared at the

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in London from 9 December 2017 to 8 April 2018. Several of Milne's children's poems were set to music by the composer Harold Fraser-Simson. His poems have been parodied many times, including with the books ''When We Were Rather Older'' and ''Now We Are Sixty''. The 1963 film '' The King's Breakfast'' was based on Milne's poem of the same name. Milne has been portrayed in television and film. Domhnall Gleeson plays him in ''

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'', a 2017 biographical drama film. In the 2018 fantasy film '' Christopher Robin'', an extension of the Disney Winnie the Pooh franchise, Tristan Sturrock plays Milne, and filming took place at Ashdown Forest. An elementary school in Houston, Texas, operated by the

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(HISD), is named after Milne. The school, A. A. Milne Elementary School in Brays Oaks, opened in 1991.

Religious views

Milne did not speak out much on the subject of religion, although he used religious terms to explain his decision, while remaining a pacifist, to join the

: "In fighting Hitler," he wrote, "we are truly fighting the Devil, the Anti-Christ ... Hitler was a crusader against God." His best known comment on the subject was recalled on his death: He wrote in the poem "Explained": He also wrote in the poem "Vespers":

Works

Novels

* ''Lovers in London'' (1905. Some consider this more of a short story collection; Milne did not like it and considered ''The Day's Play'' as his first book.) * '' Once on a Time'' (1917) * ''Mr. Pim'' (1921) (A novelisation of his 1919 play ''Mr. Pim Passes By'') * ''

'' (1922). Serialised: London (Daily News), serialised daily from 3 to 28 August 1921 * ''Two People'' (1931) (Inside jacket claims this is Milne's first attempt at a novel.) * ''

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'' (1933) * '' Chloe Marr'' (1946)

Non-fiction

* ''Peace With Honour'' (1934) * ''It's Too Late Now: The Autobiography of a Writer'' (1939) * ''War With Honour'' (1940) * ''War Aims Unlimited'' (1941) * ''Year In, Year Out'' (1952) (illustrated by E. H. Shepard)

''Punch'' articles

* ''The Day's Play'' (1910) * ''The Holiday Round'' (1912) * '' Once a Week'' (1914) * '' The Sunny Side'' (1921) * ''Those Were the Days'' (1929) he four volumes above, compiled

Newspaper articles and book introductions

* ''The Chronicles of Clovis'' by "

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" (1911) ntroduction to* ''Not That It Matters'' (1919) * ''If I May'' (1920) * ''By Way of Introduction'' (1929) * ‘'Women and Children First!’’. John Bull, 10 November 1934 * ''It Depends on the Book'' (1943, in September issue of Red Cross Newspaper ''The Prisoner of War'')

Story collections for children

* '' A Gallery of Children'' (1925) * ''

'' (1926) (illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard) * ''

'' (1928) (illustrated by E. H. Shepard) * ''Short Stories''

Poetry collections for children

* ''

'' (1924) (illustrated by E. H. Shepard) * ''

'' (1927) (illustrated by E. H. Shepard)

Story collections

* ''The Secret and other stories'' (1929) * ''The Birthday Party'' (1948) * ''A Table Near the Band'' (1950)

Poetry

* ''

'' (1924) (illustrated by E. H. Shepard) * ''For the Luncheon Interval'' (1925) oems from ''Punch''* ''

'' (1927) (illustrated by E. H. Shepard) * ''Behind the Lines'' (1940) * ''The Norman Church'' (1948)

Screenplays and plays

* '' Wurzel-Flummery'' (1917) * ''Belinda'' (1918) * ''The Boy Comes Home'' (1918) * ''Make-Believe'' (1918) (children's play) * ''The Camberley Triangle'' (1919) * '' Mr. Pim Passes By'' (1919) * ''The Red Feathers'' (1920) * ''The Romantic Age'' (1920) * ''The Stepmother'' (1920) * ''

The Truth About Blayds ''The Truth About Blayds'' is a three-act comedy by A. A. Milne, first performed in London in December 1921. It depicts the turmoil into which the family of a revered poet, Oliver Blayds, is plunged when it emerges immediately after his death th ...

'' (1920) * ''The Bump'' (1920, Minerva Films), starring

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and Faith Celli * ''Twice Two'' (1920, Minerva Films) * ''Five Pound Reward'' (1920, Minerva Films) * ''Bookworms'' (1920, Minerva Films) * ''The Great Broxopp'' (1921) * '' The Dover Road'' (1921) * ''The Lucky One'' (1922) * ''The Truth About Blayds'' (1922) * ''The Artist: A Duologue'' (1923) * ''Give Me Yesterday'' (1923) (a.k.a. ''Success'' in the UK) * ''Ariadne'' (1924) * ''The Man in the Bowler Hat: A Terribly Exciting Affair'' (1924) * ''To Have the Honour'' (1924) * ''Portrait of a Gentleman in Slippers'' (1926) * ''Success'' (1926) * ''Miss Marlow at Play'' (1927) * ''Winnie the Pooh''. Written specially by Milne for a 'Winnie the Pooh Party' in aid of the National Mother-Saving Campaign, and performed once at Seaford House on 17 March 1928(London) Daily News, 9 March 1928 * '' The Fourth Wall'' or ''The Perfect Alibi'' (1928) (later adapted for the film ''

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'' (1930), directed by

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) * '' The Ivory Door'' (1929) * '' Toad of Toad Hall'' (1929) (adaptation of ''

'') * '' Michael and Mary'' (1930) * ''Other People's Lives'' (1933) (a.k.a. ''They Don't Mean Any Harm'') * ''Miss Elizabeth Bennet'' (1936) ased_on_''Pride_and_Prejudice''.html" ;"title="Pride_and_Prejudice.html" ;"title="ased on ''Pride and Prejudice">ased on ''Pride and Prejudice''">Pride_and_Prejudice.html" ;"title="ased on ''Pride and Prejudice">ased on ''Pride and Prejudice''* ''Sarah Simple'' (1937) * ''Gentleman Unknown'' (1938) * ''The General Takes Off His Helmet'' (1939) in ''The Queen's Book of the Red Cross'' * ''The Ugly Duckling (play), The Ugly Duckling'' (1941) * ''Before the Flood'' (1951).

References

External links

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A. A. Milne Collection
at the

Ann Thwaite Collection of A. A. Milne
at the

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Works by A. A. Milne at BiblioWiki (Canada)
includes the complete text of the four Pooh books * *
Portraits of A. A. Milne
in the National Portrait Gallery
Essays by Milne
at Quotidiana.org

in ''The Guardian''

at Just-Pooh.com
A. A. Milne at poeticous.com
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AA Milne , Books , The Guardian

Finding aid to the A.A. Milne letters at Columbia University
{{DEFAULTSORT:Milne, A. A. 1882 births 1956 deaths English people of Scottish descent People from Hampstead People from Kilburn, London 20th-century British dramatists and playwrights 20th-century British short story writers 20th-century English novelists 20th-century English poets Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge British Army personnel of World War I British Home Guard officers Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers officers English children's writers Members of the Detection Club People educated at Westminster School, London Punch (magazine) people English male poets Winnie-the-Pooh Writers from London English male novelists Children's poets Military personnel from London English autobiographers

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