Kenneth grahame biography book

British writer (1859–1932)

For the Deputy General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress, see Kenneth Graham (trade unionist).

Kenneth Grahame (GRAY-əm; 8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a British writer.

He is best remembered for the classic of children's literature The Wind in the Willows (1908). Scottish by birth, he spent most of his childhood with his grandmother in England, following the death of his mother and his father's inability to look after the children.

Kenneth Grahame was a British writer.

Kenneth Grahame, British author of The Wind in the Willows (), one of the English classics of children's literature.

A moving biography of Kenneth Grahame, author of the children's classic The Wind in the Willows, and of the vision of English pastoral life that inspired it.

Kenneth Grahame's most famous works are collected in one large book.

Kenneth Grahame: An Innocent in the Wild Wood.

After attending St Edward's School in Oxford, his ambition to attend university was thwarted and he joined the Bank of England, where he had a successful career. Before writing The Wind in the Willows, he published three other books: Pagan Papers (1893), The Golden Age (1895), and Dream Days (1898).

Biography

Early life

Grahame was born on 8 March 1859 at 32 Castle Street in Edinburgh. His parents were James Cunningham Grahame (1830–1887), advocate, and Elizabeth Ingles (1837–1