Rudyard Kipling

At the turn of the twentieth century Rudyard Kipling was one of the best-known and most popular writers in the English-speaking world. He was a poet, novelist, journalist, essayist, and short-story writer. He was born in Bombay [Mumbai], India and at the age of five was sent by his parents to England for schooling.

He returned to India in 1882, and spent the next seven years working as a journalist and beginning his career as a creative writer. Many of the poems and stories for which he is most famous have their origins in this period of his life. Among these are Departmental Ditties, and numerous other collections of poems and short stories
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Kipling traveled widely and lived at various times in Vermont, South Africa, and Devon and Sussex in England. Among his best-known works today are the Just So Stories, The Jungle Book , and Kim –all of which have been adapted into movies. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming the first English-language recipient of that award.

He was a staunch supporter of the British effort in the First World War, even though he suffered the tragedy of his son’s death in the Battle of Loos in 1915. After the war his literary production declined due to ill health. He died in January of 1936.
(from Ohio University)