Benjamin Hoff

b. 1946 · American author of The Tao of Pooh (1982)

Benjamin Hoff is an American writer best known for The Tao of Pooh (1982) and its sequel The Te of Piglet (1992), which use A. A. Milne’s characters to explain Taoist ideas. He wrote this exchange himself, ventriloquizing Pooh — which is why readers later mistook it for Milne’s own words.

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“Lots of people talk to animals. Not very many listen, though”

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