At six, he was sent to school in England, but until he was 12, poor health kept him from attending | His famous poem, , written in 1897 in honor of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, contains a strong warning to the British not to exploit other races |
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At 17, Kipling returned to India and soon became a journalist | The stories of Mowgli, a man-cub who was the central character in The Jungle Book, brought Kipling great popularity in England and the United States |
In 1905, Kipling completed Kim, his first major novel.
30, 1865, in Bombay, where his father directed an art school | In 1896, Kipling returned to England from the United States |
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In it he gives a colorful and dramatic picture of the complicated life of the Indian People, as seen through the eyes of the poor orphan boy, Kim | He wrote sketches and verses which at first were used as fillers for unused editorial space |
he widely lectured and wrote for the British cause both before and during the war.
27At this time, he also created his soldiers three, and Irishman, a Cockney, and a Yorkshireman, the bases for his 1888 humorous tale Soldiers Three | Kipling composed many of his poems while living for several years in the United States in the mid-1890s |
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He was also known as a leading supporter of the British Empire | Kipling was born on Dec |
Kipling received the 1907 Nobel prize for literature.
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