Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling was an English writer and poet, born in Bombay (now Mumbai) on 30 December 1865 and died on 18 January 1936. He spent his earliest years in India, then was sent to England for schooling, an experience he later described as painful. He returned to India as a young journalist and began publishing stories and verse that quickly made his name. He later lived for a time in Vermont in the United States before settling in Sussex, England.

Kipling wrote novels, short stories and poems, and he is especially loved for his tales for children and for his vivid pictures of life in India. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907, the first English-language writer to receive it. His reputation is complicated, since he was a supporter of the British Empire and his views on it remain debated, but his skill with story, rhythm and animal fable keeps him widely read.