Rudyard Kipling, Rudyard Kipling birthday

Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) is a British author, famed for short stories, poems and tales of the British Empire in India. Children may know him best for "The Jungle Book", a collection of stories first published in magazines in 1893, made into a Disney animated movie in 1967, and then the TV show TaleSpin in 1990. Kipling won the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Happy birthday, Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling , who was born on this day in 1865, is one of several authors who have ridden the choppy seas of being connected to the empire.

Born in Bombay, British India made a strong impact on the young Kipling, though he did not spend much of his childhood there. He returned after his education as an assistant editor to a local newspaper, where he was eventually allowed to contribute short stories. Those stories, as well as his poetry and novels, became the bulk of Kipling's bibliography.