Benjamin Hoff is an American author born in Oregon in 1946. He is best known for The Tao of Pooh, published in 1982, and its sequel The Te of Piglet, published in 1992. These books present philosophical concepts, particularly Taoist ideas, through the characters of A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh stories. Hoff's work The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow won the American Book Award in 1988. In 2006, he announced his resignation from book-writing and publicly denounced the publishing industry.