Kipling was born in India, in Bombay where his father worked. When it was time for him to study he was sent to Britain. It was not easy for him to stay at his relatives as they were not happy to see him.
In 1882 Kipling returned to India. During next seven years he worked as a journalist for newspapers. At the same time he tried himself as a writer of short stories. They were first published in India, and in 1887 his book was released in England.
R. Kipling wrote not only short stories but also novels and poems. He travelled a lot. He visited a lot of countries.
His son John was killed while fighting in World War I, and after the war Kipling published a history of John's regiment, titled The Irish Guards in the Great War (1923). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.
Rudyard Kipling spent his last years in Sussex in England in his picturesque mansion.
Rudyard Kipling was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium and his ashes were buried in Poets' Corner, part of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey, where many distinguished literary people are buried or commemorated.
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