Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. He is regarded as a major “innovator in the art of the short story,his children’s books are enduring classics of children’s literature; and his best works are said to exhibit “a versatile and luminous narrative gift” Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, but educated in England at the United Services College, Westward Ho, Bideford. In 1882 he returned to India, where he worked for Anglo-Indian newspapers.

Rudyard Kipling, one of the truly great Victorian writers, wrote in 1915, following the death of his only son in the misbegotten World War 1, “If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied”. The Story of England is a grown-up version of Rudyard Kipling’s Puck of Pook’s Hill.

In Kipling’s exceedingly good book, English history is told through a series of interconnected songs and stories that reveal the successive layers of Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and Norman culture that make up “Old England” Rudyard Kipling 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.