Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, and spent his earliest years absorbing the sights, sounds, and languages of the subcontinent before being sent to school in England at the age of six—a traumatic displacement that haunted his writing for life. He returned to India as a journalist at seventeen, and the stories and poems he produced from Lahore and Allahabad made him famous before he was twenty-five. His Barrack-Room Ballads, Plain Tales from the Hills, and the two Jungle Books established him as the most popular writer in the English-speaking world. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Kim.