Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling was one of the most popular writers in England, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His best known works are The Jungle Book and the novel Kim. He also wrote poetry and a variety of short stories. In 1907 he received was the youngest and first English writer Nobel Prize in Literature, the record as the youngest Nobel literature he holds until today. He declined various other honors such as an ennoblement and the British Poet Laureateship.