They courted at Rudyard Lake in Staffordshire, England, hence Kipling's name. His father was John Lockwood Kipling, a teacher at the local Jeejeebhoy School of Art, and his mother was Alice Macdonald. Kipling was born in Bombay, India the house in which he was born still stands on the campus of the Sir J. In his own lifetime he was primarily regarded as a poet, and was offered a knighthood and the post of British poet laureate, though he turned them both down. The height of his popularity was the first decade of the 20th century: in 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, still its youngest-ever recipient to date. He is best known for the children's story If " (1895), and his many short stories.įor a time after his death, he was not popular in literary circles, mainly because he was perceived as a defender of Western imperialism, who coined the phrase "the white man's burden", but in recent times, the appeal of his writing has outweighed these considerations.
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865- January 18, 1936) was a British author and poet, born in India.
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