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TravelEtc: Grand tours; Life is too short to waste on spring- cleaning Great writers and their adventures in literature. This week: Kenneth Grahame

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20020303
Author:Liz Jones

Kenneth Grahame was born in Edinburgh in 1859, the son of a lawyer. His mother died of scarlet fever while he was still a child, so he was sent to live with his maternal grandmother in Cookham Dean, Berkshire. This was the setting for `The Wind in the Willows', based on stories written to amuse his son Alistair. Sadly, Alistair committed suicide while at Oxford, and Grahame, heartbroken, stopped writing. He died in Pangbourne, Berkshire, on 6 July 1932.

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