Grahame, Kenneth

Grahame, Kenneth (grā`əm), 1859–1931, English author. He was a secretary in the Bank of England from 1908 until 1918. His works, noted for their humor and charm, include The Golden Age (1895) and Dream Days (1898), scenes of his childhood in England, and the children's classic The Wind in the Willows (1908). Grahame also compiled the Cambridge Book of Poetry for Young People (1916).

Bibliography

See his biography, with letters and unpublished work by P. R. Chalmers (1933, repr. 1971); Inventing Wonderland (1995) by J. Wullschläger.

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Grahame, Kenneth

(born March 8, 1859, Edinburgh, Scot.—died July 6, 1932, Pangbourne, Berkshire, Eng.) British writer of children's books. He worked as a banker in London while contributing articles and stories to journals, these works were in books such as The Golden Age (1895) and Dream Days (1898). He is best known for his classic The Wind in the Willows (1908; dramatized by A.A. Milne as Toad of Toad Hall, 1930), whose animal characters—principally Mole, Rat, Badger, and Toad—captivatingly combine human traits with authentic animal habits.