Remembering My Father While Rereading The Wind in the Willows

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Mark I. West

Abstract

Taking inspiration from Anne Fadiman’s Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love, the author discusses the experience of rereading Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows. He compares his response to the novel as an adult to his initial response to Grahame’s story when his father read it aloud to him when he was eight years old.

Keywords:

Anne Fadiman, childhood experiences, father-son relationship, Kenneth Grahame, literature, psychobiography, psychohistory, Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love, The Wind in the Willows

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About the author

Mark I. West

Mark I. West, PhD, is Professor of English, as well as the recent Chair of the Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he has taught since 1984. In addition to performing administrative duties, he regularly teaches courses on children’s and young adult literature. He has written or edited 19 books, the most recent of which is Theodore Roosevelt and His Library at Sagamore Hill (2022). Before entering academia, he worked as an early childhood educator and professional puppeteer. His email address is .

How to cite this article

West, M. I. (2026). Remembering my father while rereading The Wind in the Willows. Clio’s Psyche, 33(2), 218-220.

https://doi.org/10.70763/63ceea56ae1563b4477506246829b386