Caroline Starr Balestier

Rudyard Kipling
Kipling in London in 1895
Born	Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-12-30)30 December 1865 Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India
Died	18 January 1936(1936-01-18) (aged 70) London, England
Resting place	Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, London
Occupation	Short-story writer, novelist, poet, journalist
Nationality	British
Genre	Short story, novel, children's literature, poetry, travel literature, science fiction
Notable works	The Jungle Book Just So Stories Kim Captains Courageous "If—" "Gunga Din" "The White Man's Burden"
Notable awards	Nobel Prize in Literature 1907
Spouse	Caroline Starr Balestier (m. 1892) (1862–1939)
Children	3, including Elsie Bambridge and John Kipling
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Joseph Rudyard Kipling (/ˈrʌd.jərd ˈkɪplɪŋ/ RUD-yərd KIP-ling; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.

Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). 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 regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature, and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".

Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known." In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize and its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, both of which he declined.