Kenneth Grahame is remembered for writing that changed what came after it.
The record lists Kenneth Grahame as British novelist.
Kenneth Grahame was born at Edinburgh in 1859. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He was educated at St Edward's School.
The nineteenth century was the age of the serialised novel and mass literacy; writers reached audiences of a size never seen before.
He worked as writer, novelist and children's writer.
The writing is recorded in English.
His name is attached above all to classic of children's literature The Wind in the Willows. Reputation in letters is unusually volatile: writers are forgotten for a generation and then recovered by one.
That the work was written from United Kingdom matters: language, censorship and the reach of a publishing industry decide which books travel and which stay local.
Kenneth Grahame died in 1932, aged 73. The books remain, which is the only durable form a writing life takes.
