A. A. Milne

Alan Alexander Milne, born on 18 January 1882 and died on 31 January 1956, was an English writer best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh, as well as children's poetry. He was primarily a playwright before the huge success of Winnie-the-Pooh overshadowed his previous work. He served as a lieutenant in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in the First World War and as a captain in the Home Guard in the Second World War. He wrote the story of Winnie-the-Pooh for his son Christopher Robin, upon whom the character Christopher Robin is based, and he bequeathed the original manuscripts of the Pooh stories to the Wren Library at Trinity College, Cambridge, his alma mater.