A. A. MILNE

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*1882 + 1956

 Britain

 Alan Alexander Milne

 Winnie the Pooh's author.

He wrote tales for his son Christopher and this way he invented Winnie.


He took a teddy bear from the child’s bed and invented stories and adventures about that character and its friends.

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