Rudyard Kipling

(30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist, mostly remembered for his tales for children, though he made his mark with short stories about British life in India, written for newspapers there and later collected. He was born in Bombay (Mumbai) and was taken by his family to England in 1871. His stories for children include The Jungle Book, the Second Jungle Book and Just So Stories. His major novel is Kim (a tale of adventure). He wrote many short stories, which appeared in various collections, as did his poems. T.S. Eliot made a selection of his poems, which he referred to as verse. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.