Kenneth Grahame (1859–1932) was a British writer born in Edinburgh and one of the great innovators of English children's literature. He achieved worldwide fame with The Wind in the Willows (1908), a work born from the stories he invented for his son Alastair. His lyrical and evocative style blends the pastoral with the fantastical, creating a literary universe that has endured as a refuge of imagination and tenderness for generations of readers.