Rudyard Kipling
- Style
- Walrus
- Peak Era
- 1890s
- Born
- 1865
- Fan Votes
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About Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was born in Bombay (Mumbai), India, and sent to England for schooling at age five. He returned to India at 16 to work as a journalist in Lahore, where he began publishing the stories and verse that made him famous before he was 25.
"The Jungle Book" (1894), "Kim" (1901), "Just So Stories" (1902), and poems like "If—" and "Gunga Din" made him the most popular English-language writer of his era. In 1907 he became the first English-language writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and at 41 he remains the youngest laureate in that category.
He lived for a time in Vermont, where he wrote much of "The Jungle Book," and later settled in Sussex, England. His legacy is debated because of his imperialist views, but his storytelling remains widely read.
Why the Stach Became Iconic
A heavy, bristling walrus under round spectacles and a prominent brow — the look of a Victorian man of letters who had seen the world. The mustache dominated every portrait and gave him an air of gravity that his wildly imaginative children\'s stories playfully undercut.
Notable Moments
- The Jungle Book (1894)
- Kim (1901)
- Just So Stories (1902)
- "If—" (1910)
- Nobel Prize in Literature (1907)
- He is still the youngest winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, at 41.
- He wrote "The Jungle Book" while living in Brattleboro, Vermont.
- He declined a knighthood and the post of Poet Laureate more than once.
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