Rudyard Kipling
Born: December 30, 1865
Died: January 18, 1936
Nationality: English
Occupation: Writer, novelist, poet, journalist
Biography: Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist chiefly remembered for his tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old.