Educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, Milne had the young H. G. Wells as a teacher at an early age and they would become life-long friends. After graduating in 1903, Milne began his career as a free-lance writer, contributing essays, poems and articles to magazines such as Punch and the St. James' Gazette. In 1906, he joined Punch as an assistant editor. He published his first book, Lovers in London, in 1905 at the suggestion of Wells. In 1913, he married Daphne de Selincourt and they had one son, Christopher. milne served as a signals officer with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in World War I and spent some time in 1916 in France. After the War in 1921, he published The Dover Road which was very successful. Although not known for his detective and mystery stories, Milne did publish them with a certain degree of success. The first to appear was The Red House Mystery in 1922. Others included The Fourth Wall (1928) and Four Days Wonder (1933). In 1926, Milne published Winnie the Pooh, which would become one of the most successful books of all time and would be translated into numerous languages throughout the world. Milne used his young son as a character in the book, together with a number of his son's toys. In 1928, he followed with the sequel, The House at Pooh Corner, which continued his success. Milne's other major works include To Have the Honour (1924), Gentleman Unknown (1928), Those Were the Days (1929), Other People's Lives (1933) and his autobiography, It's Too Late Now (1938). |
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