Christopher Robin Milne was born on 21 August 1920. He was the son of Alan Alexander Milne and his wife, Dorothy. His father, a famous author, used to base his poems and books on a ficitional version of Christopher Robin and his Alpha Farnell Teddy bear called Edward Bear (whom Milne changed the name of to Winnie after a chance encounter with a real bear named Winnie in a Winnipeg zoo). In 1974, he wrote and published three autobiographical books where he talked about his childhood problems because of the Pooh books. Christopher Robin Milne died on 20 April 1996.