Volume 37, Number 14 · September 27, 1990
Poohdom
By Janet Adam Smith
A.A. Milne: The Man Behind Winnie-the-Pooh
by Ann Thwaite
Random House, 554 pp., $29.95
'It is ghastly to think of anyone who wrote such gay stuff ending his life like this,' wrote P. G. Wodehouse in 1954 on hearing that his old acquaintance A. A. Milne had been paralyzed by a stroke. Two years later Milne's life did indeed end sadly: his only son estranged, his wife aloof, his novels mostly unread, his plays mostly unperformed, himself famous only for his books for children. He had become the man behind Winnie-the-Pooh.
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