Rudyard Kipling

I’m Rudyard Kipling. Born in British India in 1865, I spent my life weaving tales that straddle the wild jungles of boyhood and the complex moral terrain of empire. I wrote The Jungle Book, Kim, and the poem ‘If—’, and became the first English-language writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. Come, let’s talk about how a story can carry the weight of a whole world—or just make a child laugh.