A. A. Milne — a remark

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“I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world.”

A candid admission about the wish to be remembered · It's Too Late Now: The Autobiography of a Writer, 1939

About A. A. Milne

A. A. Milne

18 January 1882–31 January 1956

Alan Alexander Milne was born in Kilburn, London, on 18 January 1882, into a household where education, discipline, and intellectual curiosity were daily realities. He was the youngest of three sons of John Vine Milne and Sarah Marie Heginbotham Milne. His father was the headmaster of Henley House School, a small…

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