including Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Thomas Hardy. In 2009, Ann Thwaite published Passageways: The Story of a New Zealand Family, which was much praised on both sides of the world. All eight of her great-grandparents emigrated to New Zealand in the middle of the nineteenth century, and it was the realisation that she knew so much more about the families of her biographical subjects that made her look into her own family history. In 2017, a new edition was published of her 1990 biography of A. A. Milne to coincide with the film Goodbye Christopher Robin for which she was a consultant. It appeared with the subtitle A.A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh and had an introduction by Frank Cottrell-Boyce, the screenwriter. In 2018, Goodbye Christopher Robin was translated into Japanese. In 1990, Christopher Milne wrote to her: "In you my father has found the perfect biographer... I am left with nothing but admiration and happiness." Works A Piece of Parkin: A True Story from the Autobiography of Frances Hodgson Burnett (1980) Edmund Gosse: A Literary Landscape, 1849-1928 (1984) A. A. Milne: His Life (1990) Waiting for the Party: The Life of Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1849-1924 (1991) The Ashton Affair (1995) (children's book) Emily Tennyson: The Poet's Wife (1996) Glimpses of the Wonderful: The Life of Philip Henry Gosse 1810-1888 (2002) Passageways: The Story of a New Zealand Family (2009) External links Ann Thwaite Collection of A. A. Milne at the Harry Ransom Center References 1932 births British biographers Alumni of St Hilda's College, Oxford Living people Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature People educated at Queen Elizabeth's School for Girls English emigrants to New Zealand