A brief biography of Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling was born on December 30, 1865 in Bombay, India (British Empire). When Rudyard was a young boy, he and his sister, Alice, had an Indian nurse who told them great stories about the jungle animals. These stories stayed with Rudyard throughout his life. When he was about six years old his parents sent him and his sister to England to be educated. The two children were sent to live in the home of a retired …

…Cecil Rhodes. They also took another trip to North America which varied their Sussex lives. They soon bought a house in the Sussex Downs in 1902 which had cultivated land surrounding it. Rudyard Kipling received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907. Kipling's son was killed while fighting for France in World War I. Kipling died on January 18, 1936, the same month that King George the V died. He was buried in Westminster Abbey with England's honored sons.