Birthday of Canadian novelist, poet and critic Margaret Atwood: Nov. 18, 1939…
“Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like paté.” ― Margaret Atwood
Photo: Margaret Atwood in Cambridge, 1963
This book has everything: plot, characterisation, an astonishingly rich prose style and relationships which become your own, whatever your sexuality, and leave you gasping. This is that extraordinary combination: a work of great art which you cannot put down. It is funny and moving but never less than serious and deserves to be read for ever.
A A Milne was, in his prime, most famous as a playwright, who wrote 18 plays, as well as a good detective story, still in print, called The Red House Mystery.
But when he wrote a handful of stories and poem books for his little son, Christopher Robin Milne, their explosive success obliterated everything else he had ever done, or ever would do, and ever since then, to his own dismay, he has been known only as the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh.
Reblogged from kvetchlandia:
E.O. Hoppé A.A. Milne, Writer, England 1916
