And Milna Biography

Stories about the bearish “with sawdust in the head” became one of the largest victories of the writer, but, at the same time, the most terrible defeat in his life. But about everything in order. Alan Miln was born in the year in London, studied at a private school, the director of which was his father. Among the teachers of the young Milna was Herbert Wells.

However, we do not have evidence that the famous science fiction writer somehow influenced his student’s literary career. Later, Miln entered the Westminster School, and then to the elite Trinity College Cambridge, where he studied mathematics. Despite classes of accurate sciences, the young man decided to earn a living by literature. After release from Cambridge, he hit the Punch magazine and soon became an assistant editor.

Up to a year, Miln managed to write 18 plays and three novels, including the detective of The Secrets of the Red House. The first world war was an injury for his life. In the year, the writer went to Flanders. According to journalist Barry Gan, he decided only because his adored wife was terribly liked by officers in military uniforms who flooded London. Dorothy, for relatives - Daphne, always wanted to be proud of her husband.

Despite the fact that Alan Miln spent a relatively little time at the front, he nevertheless participated in major battles, such as the famous battle on Somma, which is more often called “massacre”. After the war, the writer returned to a convinced supporter of the world and cherished the dream of pacifist work for a long time. The book "World with Honor" was published in the year.

This, however, did not prevent Alan Milna from becoming the captain of the British self -defense unit in the year. He explained his step by the fact that the struggle with Hitler, the “antichrist” and the “crusader against God,” is a right business. In the 10ths, Miln became one of the first scriptwriters of young British cinema. He has four films, copies of which are today stored at the British Institute of Cinematography.

All the writer's work before the appearance of stories about Winnie the Pooh is continuous, mainly successful, literary experiments. It was he who replaced the heavyweight satire of the pre -war “punch” with light and thin humor. But in the framework of the satire, he became crowded at the time when the agent and the publisher repeated that he should continue to write caricatures and bizarre essays for Pancha, Miln took up detective novels.

After a couple of years, these same people assured that detectives were his calling.

Alan Miln could find his audience in any genre. Everything changed when the first book of stories about Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh saw the light. This is not to say that the changes have occurred overnight. In m, four years after the birth of the son of Christopher Robin, Miln published a collection of children's poems “When we were small”, which illustrated Ernest Sheppard.

A collection of stories "Children's Gallery", which included stories about Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Tiger and others, appeared a year later. As Alan Miln himself said, he did not have to invent anything, he simply watched his own son and his games. Christopher Robin himself threw ideas for future stories. The first full book about the teddy bear and his friends came out in the year, and the second in metro station was unprecedented, but Milnu did not want to write more about Vinnie, and his son had already grown up.

Alas, after the appearance of books for babies, the author began to look exclusively as a children's writer. Critics scolded his other works in advance, and readers demanded a continuation. Until the end of his life, both the writer and his son hated Winnie. The first for the fact that this character stole a career from him, the second - for a stolen childhood. There was another person who regretted that he had “contacted” Winnie Poom-Ernest Sheppard.

His brilliant cartoonist and a fearless military correspondent, was also perceived until the end of his life only as an author of illustrations for children's books. Probably, neither Milna nor Sheppard were able to appreciate what is obvious to modern readers. In the period between the two world wars, when the empires collapsed and the families broke up, they created a fairy tale free from politics and hints of personal injuries.

A fairy tale in which it is warm and comfortable, as in a children's room, and for this, readers in the world love it so. When copying materials, be sure to post an active link to EKSMO.