Kipling (1865–1936)

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was a British author and poet, born in India. He is best known for the book of children's tales The Jungle Book (1894), the Indian spy novel Kim (1901), the poems Gunga Din (1892), and If— (1895), as well as many of his short stories.

The height of Kipling's popularity was the first decade of the 20th century. In 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and still remains its youngest-ever recipient, as well as the first English language writer to receive the prize.

In his own lifetime he was primarily regarded as a poet, and was offered a knighthood and the post of British poet laureate, though he turned them both down.

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