![]() ![]() In 1907, he became the first British writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. ![]() There he became one of England’s most beloved authors, penning the likes of The Jungle Book, Captains Courageous, and Just So Stories. He married Caroline Balestie, the sister of an American publisher, in 1892 and spent a few years in America before returning to Britain in 1896. He released six collections of short stories between 18, giving him the success he needed to fully pursue a literary career. He worked in newspapers for the first six years of his career-from 1883 until 1889-where his first short stories and essays were published. He returned to India to finish his schooling, and soon got a job at a small local newspaper in what is today a part of Pakistan. He attended boarding school in England, where a combination of homesickness and mistreatment turned him towards literary endeavors. As an “Anglo-Indian,” Kipling grew up with a complicated relationship to both countries-complexities he often explored in his fiction. ![]() Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India in 1860, when the country was under control of the British Empire. ![]()
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