Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was an English writer and poet, born in Bombay, British India, and best known for The Jungle Book, Just So Stories and the poem “If—.” Schooled in England, he returned to India at sixteen as a journalist in Lahore, and his stories from those years, collected in Plain Tales from the Hills (1888), brought him success in London. Living in Vermont after his marriage, he wrote The Jungle Book (1894) and its sequel, in which Mowgli learns the Law of the Jungle. Later came Captains Courageous (1897), Kim (1901) and Puck of Pook's Hill (1906). In 1907 he became the first English-language writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. After his son John died in the First World War, he served the Imperial War Graves Commission and chose the inscription “Their Name Liveth for Evermore.” “If—” remains a beloved creed of self-discipline and integrity.
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Queen Victoria's reign (1837–1901) was an age of exploration, reform and Christian service. David Livingstone crossed Africa as a missionary and explorer and campaigned against the slave trade. Florence Nightingale transformed nursing after the Crimean War and founded a nursing school in London. William Booth founded the Salvation Army to serve the poor. Rudyard Kipling wrote the hymn-like poem Recessional for the queen's Diamond Jubilee in 1897.
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Rudyard Kipling delighted young readers with The Jungle Book and the Just So Stories. J.R.R. Tolkien first shared The Hobbit with his own children, and his friend C.S. Lewis wrote the seven Chronicles of Narnia. Walt Disney brought classic tales to the screen; The Jungle Book (1967), adapted from Kipling, was the last animated feature he personally oversaw. Fred Rogers spoke to children with kindness and respect for more than three decades on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
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