Who was Rudyard Kipling?

Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India, in 1865. His parents were British; his father was an artist and teacher. Kipling loved India, but only got to spend his first five years there before he had to move to England, where he wasn't as happy. At the age of 12 he went to a boarding school, and at 16 he returned to India and worked for newspapers. In his spare time he wrote stories and poems, which were published in the newspapers he wrote articles for. In 1889 he returned to England and published a book of stories. He married three years later. With his wife he moved to Vermont, where two children were born, and where he wrote Captains Courageous and The Jungle Books. In 1896 the family moved back to England. After his daughter Josephine died tragically on a trip, his life was never quite the same. In 1902 he moved to a beautiful country house in Sussex, England, where he lived out the rest of his days, writing many more favorite stories. The family experienced another tragedy when his son, John, was killed in World War I. He was a personal friend of King George V and worked on the Imperial War Graves Commission in his later years. He traveled a lot in the post WWI years, and at the outset of one of his trips in 1936, he passed away. During his life he had been offered knighthood, the Poet Laureateship, and the Order of Merit, but he refused them all. He did, however, accept the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.