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The definitive and revealing life story of the author of The Secret Garden, Ann Thwaite creates a sympathetic but balanced and eye-opening biography of Frances Hodgson Burnett who enchanted numerous generations of children.

Goodbye Christopher Robin: A.A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh is drawn from Ann Thwaite's Whitbread Award-winning biography of A. A. Milne, one of England's most successful writers. After serving in the First World War, Milne wrote a number of well-received plays, but his greatest triumph came when he created Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore and, of course, Christopher Robin, the adventurous little boy based on his own son. Go...

Goodbye Christopher Robin: A. A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh is drawn from Ann Thwaite's acclaimed biography of A. A. Milne, one of the most successful English writers ever, and the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh, and of Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore and Christopher Robin.But the fictional Christopher Robin was based on Milne's own son. This heart-warming and touching book recounts the true story that inspired the film Goodbye Christopher Rob...

Biography about the novelist who wrote one of the best-loved childrens books, "The Secret Garden

Describing the lifestyles of the court and gives us a tour around it

She constructs a vivid and poignant portrayal of the inscrutable man and his stories, which earned so much devotion among readers that, eighty years after their creation, this portrait of their creator remains a must for followers of Pooh - whatever their age.

Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Biography

Ann Thwaite is a Whitbread-prize winning biographer and children¿s writer. She was born in London, spent the war years in New Zealand and was educated at Queen Elizabeth¿s, Barnet and St Hilda¿s College, Oxford. Ann has travelled extensively and has lived in Tokyo, Benghazi and Nashville and is now settled in Norfolk with her husband, the poet Anthony Thwaite. Ann has written five major biographies. The first, of Frances Hodgson Burnett, the a...

From the Whitbread-prize winning author of A. A. Milne: A Life

This book, with an introduction by Penelope Lively, brings together for the first time seven short stories by the prize-winning biographer, Ann Thwaite. The backgrounds include Wellington in New Zealand, Basra in Iraq and, in several stories, South Norfolk in England. Reviewers of her books have commented: 'Highly readable... the Thwaite style is irresistible.' 'Beautifully written and compelling to read.' 'She writes faultlessl...

Ann Thwaite is a Whitbread-prize winning biographer and children¿s writer. She was born in London, spent the war years in New Zealand and was educated at Queen Elizabeth¿s, Barnet and St Hilda¿s College, Oxford. Ann has travelled extensively and has lived in Tokyo, Benghazi and Nashville and is now settled in Norfolk with her husband, the poet Anthony Thwaite. Ann has written five major biographies. The first, of Frances Hodgson Burnett, the a...

It was as a small girl in Lincolnshire that Emily Sellwood first saw the boy Alfred Tennyson. Nearly thirty years later, in the year he became Poet Laureate, they married. This biography discusses the poet's relationship with his wife.