Kenneth Grahame, author of "The Wind in the Willows," born in Edinburgh
Kenneth Grahame was born in Scotland but was raised in rural Berkshire in southern England. While working as an official in the Bank of England for thirty years, Grahame published light stories in periodicals and in collections. In 1908 he published The Wind in the Willows, his most famous and enduring work. Grahame died in Berkshire in 1932. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
M. C. Rintoul, Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction (London: Taylor & Francis, 1993), 456.