Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)

He was born in Bombay on the 30th of December by parents of english origin and spent his boyhood in India.
Once he achieved his educational duties in England, he went back to India where he started a career as a journalist. At the age of twentytwo he published his first volume of tales: Tales of the Hills (1887).
He started a long period of journeys: he travelled in Japan, U.S.A. Australia and South Africa. He was an appreciated poet: Barrack-room Ballads (1892), Seven Seas (1896), Five nations (1903).
He settled in Vermont (U.S.A.) in 1892 and, there, he wrote The Jungle Book and The second Jungle Book, perhaps his most succesful works.
He was awarded with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.
He went back to England in 1896, where he wrote Kim (1901) - which is considered his narrative masterpiece -and lived there until his death in 1936.

links:  - The Kipling Society