Grahame married Elspeth Thomson in 1899, but the marriage was not a happy one. They had only one child, a boy named Alastair (whose nickname was "Mouse") born blind in one eye and plagued by health problems throughout his short life. Alastair eventually committed suicide on a railway track while an undergraduate at Oxford University, two days before his 20th birthday on 7 May 1920. Out of respect for Kenneth Grahame, Alastair's demise was recorded as an accidental death.
Kenneth Grahame died in Pangbourne, Berkshire in 1932. He is buried in Holywell Cemetery, Oxford. Grahame's cousin Anthony Hope, also a successful author, wrote his epitaph, which reads: "To the beautiful memory of Kenneth Grahame, husband of Elspeth and father of Alastair, who passed the river on the 6th of July, 1932, leaving childhood and literature through him the more blest for all time".
肯尼思·格雷厄姆(Kenneth Grahame,1859~1932),英國著名作家。生于蘇格蘭愛丁堡,童年相當(dāng)不聿,5歲喪母,父親也于不久后辭世,他和他的幾個(gè)兄弟由親戚撫養(yǎng)長(zhǎng)大。童年喪失雙親對(duì)肯尼思·格雷厄姆打擊很大。但這并沒有影響到他對(duì)這個(gè)世界,尤其是對(duì)大自然的熱愛。他常常利用課余時(shí)間和節(jié)假日研究大自然,進(jìn)行實(shí)地考察,這為他后來的文學(xué)創(chuàng)作積累了豐富的經(jīng)驗(yàn)和素材。中學(xué)畢業(yè)后,格雷厄姆沒錢上大學(xué),進(jìn)入英格倫銀行工作。他熱愛文學(xué),常常利用晚上和節(jié)假日寫作。他寫起關(guān)于小動(dòng)物的童話來游刃有余,簡(jiǎn)直如行云流水一般。不幸的是,就在寫成這部童話的那年(1908年),格雷厄姆在銀行遭到一個(gè)瘋子槍擊而受傷,被迫退休??夏崴肌じ窭锥蚰酚?932年7月6日去世,享年73歲。