What is Rudyard Kipling?
{{unsourced|date=August 2013}} [[File:Kiplingcropped.jpg|thumb|right|Rudyard Kipling]] {{nobelprize|Literature}} '''Joseph Rudyard Kipling''' (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an [[English people|English]] [[writer]] and [[poet]]. ==Life== Kipling was born in [[Bombay]], [[British India|India]]. He wrote [[children's literature|children's fiction]], like ''[[Kim (book)|Kim]]'', ''[[The Jungle Book]]'' and ''[[Puck of Pook's Hill]]''. He also wrote the well-known [[poems]], ''[[If —]]'' and ''Gunga Din'', and many short stories set in India. He was awarded the 1907 [[Nobel Prize in Literature]]. He spent part of his life living and writing in [[New England]] with his American wife but returned to England to live in [[Sussex]]. Kipling died of a perforated duodenal [[ulcer]] in [[Fitzrovia]], [[London]] in 1936 and is buried in [[Westminster Abbey]], London. {{Nobel Prize in Literature}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kipling, Rudyard}} [[Category:1865 births]] [[Category:1936 deaths]] [[Category:British Nobel Prize winners]] [[Category:English children's writers]] [[Category:English poets]] [[Category:People buried in Westminster Abbey]] [[Category:People from Bombay]] {{bio-stub}}