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Portrait image of A.A. Milne Photo: Howard Coster/Bob Thomas/Popperfoto/Getty Images (1926)

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Milne, A.A.

English writer, poet and journalist who became world famous for having created one of the most beloved figures in children’s books: Winnie-the-Pooh (Nalle Puh in Swedish). A.A. (Alan Alexander) Milne was born in London, where he grew up and started his schooling at Westminster School 1893–1900. He continued at Trinity College in Cambridge where he was the editor of the student magazine Granta in 1...

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Joe Ashworth

Gender: Male

He is a detective sergeant in Northumberland, married and with a daughter Jessie. He is also a faithful companion to the eccentric and unconventional Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope in a suite of police novels by Ann Cleeves. Ashworth is one of the few people in whom Vera trusts – she regards him more like a son. However, she is forever forgetting what his wife and daughter are called…

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