Biography joseph rudyard kipling

English writer and poet (1865–1936)

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Joseph Rudyard Kipling (RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)^[1] was an English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer.

He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.

Kipling's works of fiction include the Jungle Bookduology (The Jungle Book, 1894; The Second Jungle Book, 1895), Kim (1901), the Just So Stories (1902) and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888).^[2] His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If—" (1910).

He is seen as an innovator in the art of the short story.^[3] His children's books are classics; one critic noted "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".^[4][5]

Kipling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was among