Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936) was a British author and poet, born in India.

 He is best known for the children's story The Jungle Book (1894), the Indian spy novel Kim (1901), the poems "Gunga Din" (1892), "If— " (1895), and his many short stories.

Rudyard Kipling ( 1865 – 1936)

The height of his popularity was the first decade of the 20th century: in 1907,

 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, still its youngest-ever recipient to date.

Kipling kept writing until the early 1930s, but at a slower pace and with much less success than before.

He died of a brain hemorrhage in January of 1936 at the age of 70 and is buried in Poets' Corner, part of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey where many literary people are buried or commemorated.