![UNSPECIFIED - OCTOBER 09: The English novelist Alan Alexander Milne (1882-1956) author of the story Winnie the Pooh, here with his son Christopher Robin Milner (1920-1996), photo by Howard Coster, 1926 - English novelist Alan Alexander Milne who wrote the story of Winnie the Pooh (1926) here with his son Christopher Robin Milner, picture by Howard Coster, 1926 - father and child father and child (Photo by Apic/Getty Images)](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/Y3CIQX6NPFIP3XG7I4KZE55WOU.jpg?smart=true&auth=5667e40724f0af3d6f923ee65f5636044532273a9d30a774b03a2b86306cf2e4&width=400&height=225)
War veteran A A Milne with his son Christopher Robin in 1926. Getty Images
War veteran A A Milne with his son Christopher Robin in 1926. Getty Images
Author A A Milne’s life is made into a film, but how accurate will it be?
Goodbye Christopher Robin is not the first time filmmakers have broached the subject of children’s authors and their volatile private lives
James Mottram
08 January, 2018