Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling was born in India in 1865, and spent his early years there.  He was educated in England, but returned to India in 1882, became a journalist, and began writing short stories and verse.  He was already famous for his work when he arrived back in England in 1889, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.  He wrote many books for children, the best known and most popular being JUST SO STORIES and THE JUNGLE BOOK.  Kipling died in 1936 and is buried in Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey.