Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling was born in 1865 in Bombay, India, where his father, John Lockwood Kipling, taught at an art school. At five he and his younger sister were sent to England to board with a family in Southsea, where he was unhappy, and he later attended the United Services College in Devon. At sixteen he returned to India to work as a journalist in Lahore, and his stories of Anglo-Indian life, such as Plain Tales from the Hills (1888), made him famous. In 1892 he married Caroline Balestier, an American, and they lived for four years in Vermont, where he wrote The Jungle Book (1894), about Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves. Back in England, he wrote Captains Courageous, Kim (1901), about an orphan boy in India, and Just So Stories (1902), gathered after his daughter Josephine died of pneumonia in 1899. His poems, including 'If—', were very popular. In 1907 he became the first English-language writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. His only son, John, was killed at the Battle of Loos in 1915. Kipling died in London in 1936.

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