Joseph Rudyard Kipling (Bombay, 1865-London, 1936), author of tales and children's stories, novelist and poet, will be remembered above all for his children's works. Among these are The Jungle Book (1894), the short story The Man Who Would Be King (1888), spy novel Kim (1901), and Puck of Pook's Hill (1906), some of them, made into movies.
After rejecting the national poetry prize Poet Laureat in 1895, the Order of Merit and knighted the Order of the British Empire, Kipling accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 becoming the youngest winner to date of this award, and the first British writer to receive this award.