Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936) was a British author and poet, born in India. He is best known for the children's story The Jungle Book (1894), the Indian spy novel Kim (1901), the poems "Gunga Din" (1892), "If— " (1895), and his many short stories.

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He was also an outspoken defender of Western imperialism, coined the phrase "The White Man's Burden" and embodied what that implied in the hymnlike strophes of "Recessional: a Victorian Ode" (1897) with its refrain "Lest we forget— lest we forget." The height of his popularity was the first decade of the 20th century: in 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, still its youngest-ever recipient to date, and in 1934 he shared the Gothenburg Prize for Poetry with William Butler Yeats. In his own lifetime he was primarily considered a poet, and was even offered a knighthood and the post of British Poet Laureate — though he turned them both down.

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Rudyard Kipling English Writer Sketched During a Visit to Naples in March 1928

Front Cover from 'Just So Stories for Little Children' by Rudyard Kipling 1951

Mowgli and the Wolves Illustration from 'The Jungle Book' by Rudyard Kipling

Mowgli and the Monkeys Illustration from 'The Jungle Book' By Rudyard Kipling