AIBU to wonder if nearly all children’s book authors had sad life’s

[ConfusedWife1234]

To name a few who had:

A.A. Milne (Winnieh the Pooh), J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit), C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia), J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter), Enid Blyton (Five go on...). That‘s four authors about whose biography I learned but and I discovered they really had sad lives. I do not know the biographies of most writers to be honest and wonder if some had happy lives.

They did reconcile, but it was mainly because he shagged someone else when her mother became ill, and he sold first edition books she'd gifted him and signed dedicated to him to pay debts.

Oh that sucks. I really like JK Rowling’s work but noticed so many of the families she writes about are dysfunctional. Maybe that’s why.