Kenneth Grahame

Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1879 he joined the staff of the Bank of England, becoming secretary in 1898. He retired after the publication of his most successful work, The Wind in the Willows (1908), a fantasy about Mole, Rat and other animals in the English countryside. Other works include The Golden Age (1895) and Dream Days (1898).