A. A. Milne was an English author, poet, and essayist. Throughout his career, he wrote more than ten books, numerous essays and articles, as well as a few short story collections, most notably the Winnie the Pooh series, which were inspired by his son Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed animals. Milne passed away in January of 1956.E. H. Shepard was a prolific English artist and book illustrator, most well known for his work in Winnie the Pooh and Aesop's Fables.
