1865-1936
Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907, Rudyard Kipling may be best known for his classic animal stories, the two Jungle Books.
Though his parents were British he was born in Bombay, India. He began working as a journalist in India in 1882, having returned from a boarding school in England.
His numerous books were well-received: a book of satirical verses and short stories, Plain Tales From the Hills in 1888, Soldiers Three in 1892; verse collections Barrack Room Ballads in 1892 and The Seven Seas in 1896, Kim in 1901 and Just So Stories in 1902; Puck of Pook's Hill in 1906 and his autobiographical Something of Myself in 1937.
