'''Rudyard Kipling''' (30 December, 1865 - 18 January, 1936) was an English poet (born in Bombay, British [[India]],<ref>http://www.kipling.org.uk/kip_fra.htm</ref> ) and writer of children's books who spent some time living in Vermont. His unusual first name comes from Lake Rudyard where his parents spent many happy hours together. He authored ''Captains Courageous'' and ''The Jungle Book''. He won an early Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1907. He made his home at Bateman's, near the prosperous village of [[Burwash]] in [[Sussex]], [[England]]. | '''Rudyard Kipling''' (30 December, 1865 - 18 January, 1936) was an English poet (born in Bombay, British [[India]],<ref>http://www.kipling.org.uk/kip_fra.htm</ref> ) and writer of children's books who spent some time living in Vermont. His unusual first name comes from Lake Rudyard where his parents spent many happy hours together. He authored ''Captains Courageous'' and ''The Jungle Book''. He won an early Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1907. He made his home at Bateman's, near the prosperous village of [[Burwash]] in [[Sussex]], [[England]]. |