Best of Alan Alexander Milne — A.A. Milne

British author A. A. Milne was born in London, 1882. Milne began a successful career as a novelist, poet and playwright in the 1920s. During his military service, Milne had written his first play, a one-act farce titled Wurzel-Flummery. After the war, he achieved success as a playwright. His comedies of the early 1920s, including Mr. Pim Passes By, The Holiday Round and The Dover Road, were enthusiastically received by critics and audiences. He also penned a detective novel titled The Red House Mystery, published in 1922. In 1929 he wrote a stage adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's classic children's book The Wind in the Willows, titled Toad of Toad Hall.