Kenneth Grahame

Kenneth Grahame was born in 1859 in Edinburgh, lost his mother at the age of five and was brought up by a grandmother, his father having lost himself in drink. For lack of money, he could not go to university: he joined the Bank of England, of which he became secretary, and retired from it in 1908 for reasons of health, five years after surviving shots fired by a deranged man. He wrote on the margins of his banking career, for magazines and then childhood memories. He died in 1932 at Pangbourne, a village on the Thames where he had retired.

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• NovelThe Wind in the WillowsKenneth Grahame · 1908LiteraturePublic domain