Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer born in Bombay, India, who became famous for his celebration of British imperialism, his tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his children's stories. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 and is best known for works including The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, Kim, and the poem 'If—.'

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