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Rudyard Joseph Kipling
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30 December 1865 - 18 January 1936
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Joseph Rudyard Kipling is from Bombay, India, where he was born in December 1865. His father, John Lockwood Kipling, met his future wife, Alice Macdonald, at Rudyard Lake in England, who suggested their future son’s name.After studying in England and beginning in 1882, Rudyard Kipling worked as a journalist in India and tried to write poetry and short stories. A year later, his work began to sell. Kipling soon returned to England, where his first novel, The Light That Failed, was published.The second
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Joseph Rudyard Kipling is from Bombay, India, where he was born in December 1865. His father, John Lockwood Kipling, met his future wife, Alice Macdonald, at Rudyard Lake in England, who suggested their future son’s name.After studying in England and beginning in 1882, Rudyard Kipling worked as a journalist in India and tried to write poetry and short stories. A year later, his work began to sell. Kipling soon returned to England, where his first novel, The Light That Failed, was published.The second novel, The Naulahka, was co-authored with Walcott Bailstir, after whose death, Kipling married his sister Caroline Bailstear, who bore him two children Josephine and Elsie.
Redyard Kipling wrote many works for children, the most popular of which were a collection of short stories "The Jungle Book" (The Jungle), containing the novel "Rick-Tim-Kim" (Rick-Kim-Kim-Kim). In addition, Kipling created wonderful poems ("Commandment", "If" and others) and fairy tales ("Elephant", "The Cat Who Walked by Herself" and others).
In 1907, Rudyard Kipling received the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 1936, the famous writer and poet died in London. /